Designing Dynamic Bubble Charts in Laravel Using Chart.js: A Step-by-Step Guide
3 min readDec 1, 2023
Introduction:
Bubble charts offer a visually engaging way to represent three-dimensional data. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through integrating Chart.js into your Laravel application to create dynamic and interactive bubble charts.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure the following prerequisites are met:
- A Laravel project is set up.
- Basic knowledge of Laravel and JavaScript.
- Composer is installed for Laravel dependencies.
Step 1: Install Chart.js via CDN
Include Chart.js in your Laravel project by adding the following CDN link in the <head> section of your blade view:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- Other head elements -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Your Laravel application content -->
</body>
</html>Step 2: Create a Controller
Generate a controller to handle the bubble chart data. Run the following Artisan command:
php artisan make:controller BubbleChartController
