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Developing Dynamic Polar Area Charts in Laravel Using Chart.js: A Step-by-Step Guide
3 min readNov 28, 2023
Introduction:
Polar area charts provide a visually appealing way to represent data in a circular format. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through integrating Chart.js into your Laravel application to create dynamic and interactive polar area 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 polar area chart data. Run the following Artisan command:
php artisan make:controller PolarAreaChartController
