Rickshaw
Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs, developed at Shutterstock
Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- Install
- Rickshaw.Graph
- element
- series
- renderer
- width
- height
- min
- max
- padding
- interpolation
- stack
- Methods
- render()
- configure()
- onUpdate(f)
- Extensions
- Rickshaw.Color.Palette
- Color Schemes
- Interpolation
- Rickshaw and Cross-Browser Support
- Minification
- Development
- Contributing
- Authors
- License
Getting Started
Getting started with a simple graph is straightforward. Here's the gist:
var graph = new Rickshaw.Graph( {
element: document.querySelector('#graph'),
series: [
{
color: 'steelblue',
data: [ { x: 0, y: 23}, { x: 1, y: 15 }, { x: 2, y: 79 } ]
}, {
color: 'lightblue',
data: [ { x: 0, y: 30}, { x: 1, y: 20 }, { x: 2, y: 64 } ]
}
]
} );
graph.render();
See the overview, tutorial, and examples for more.
Install
In the browser, manually add rickshaw.min.js and rickshaw.min.css in the document head.
Alternatively, you can install Rickshaw using Bower or npm.
# With bower
bower install rickshaw
# With npm
npm install --save rickshaw
Dependencies
Rickshaw relies on the fantastic D3 visualization library to do lots of the heavy lifting for stacking and rendering to SVG.
Some extensions require jQuery and jQuery UI, but for drawing some basic graphs you'll be okay without.
Rickshaw.Graph
A Rickshaw graph. Send an element reference, series data, and optionally other properties to the constructor before calling render() to point the graph. A listing of properties follows. Send these as arguments to the constructor, and optionally set them later on already-instantiated graphs with a call to configure()
element
A reference to an HTML element that should hold the graph.
series
Array of objects containing series data to plot. Each object should contain data at a minimum, a sorted array of objects each with x and y properties. Optionally send a name and color as well. Some renderers and extensions may also support additional keys.
renderer
A string containing the name of the renderer to be used. Options include area, stack, bar, line, and scatterplot. Defaults to line. Also see the multi meta renderer in order to support different renderers per series.
width
Width of the graph in pixels. Falls back to the width of the element, or defaults to 400 if the element has no width.
height
Height of the graph in pixels. Falls back to the height of the element, or defaults to 250 if the element has no height.
min
Lower value on the Y-axis, or auto for the lowest value in the series. Defaults to 0.
max
Highest value on the Y-axis. Defaults to the highest value in the series.
padding
An object containing any of top, right, bottom, and left properties specifying a padding percentage around the extrema of the data in the graph. Defaults to 0.01 on top for 1% padding, and 0 on other sides. Padding on the bottom only applies when the yMin is either negative or auto.
interpolation
Line smoothing / interpolation method (see D3 docs); notable options:
linear: straight lines between pointsstep-after: square steps from point to pointcardinal: smooth curves via cardinal splines (default)basis: smooth curves via B-splines
stack
Allows you to specify whether series should be stacked while in the context of stacking renderers (area, bar, etc). Defaults to stack: 'true'. To unstack, unstack: 'true'.
Methods
Once you have instantiated a graph, call methods below to get pixels on the screen, change configuration, and set callbacks.
render()
Draw or redraw the graph.
configure()
Set properties on an instantiated graph. Specify any properties the constructor accepts, including width and height and renderer. Call render() to redraw the graph and reflect newly-configured properties.
onUpdate(f)
Add a callback to run when the graph is rendered
Extensions
Once you have a basic graph, extensions let you add functionality. See the overview and examples listing for more.
-
Rickshaw.Graph.Legend - add a basic legend
-
Rickshaw.Graph.HoverDetail - show details on hover
-
Rickshaw.Graph.JSONP - get data via a JSONP request
-
Rickshaw.Graph.Annotate - add x-axis annotations
-
Rickshaw.Graph.RangeSlider - dynamically zoom on the x-axis with a slider
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Rickshaw.Graph.RangeSlider.Preview - pan and zoom via graphical preview of entire data set
-
Rickshaw.Graph.Axis.Time - add an x-axis and grid lines with time labels
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Rickshaw.Graph.Axis.X - add an x-axis and grid lines with arbitrary labels
-
Rickshaw.Graph.Axis.Y - add a y-axis and grid lines
-
Rickshaw.Graph.Axis.Y.Scaled - add a y-axis with an alternate scale
-
Rickshaw.Graph.Behavior.Series.Highlight - highlight series on legend hover
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Rickshaw.Graph.Behavior.Series.Order - reorder series in the stack with drag-and-drop
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Rickshaw.Graph.Behavior.Series.Toggle - toggle series on and off through the legend
Rickshaw.Color.Palette
Rickshaw comes with a few color schemes. Instantiate a palette and specify a scheme name, and then call color() on the palette to get each next color.
var palette = new Rickshaw.Color.Palette( { scheme: 'spectrum2001' } );
palette.color() // => first color in the palette
palette.color() // => next color in the palette...
Optionally, to palette.color() can take a numeric argument to specify which color from the palette should be used (zero-indexed). This can be helpful when assigning a color to series of a plot with particular meaning:
var palette = new Rickshaw.Color.Palette( { scheme: 'colorwheel' } );
palette.color(0) // => first color in the palette - red in this example
palette.color(2) // => third color in the palette - light blue
Color Schemes
- classic9
- colorwheel
- cool
- munin
- spectrum14
- spectrum2000
- spectrum2001
Interpolation
For graphs with more series than palettes have colors, specify an interpolatedStopCount to the palette constructor.
Rickshaw and Cross-Browser Support
This library works in modern browsers and Internet Explorer 9+.
Rickshaw relies on the HTMLElement#classList API, which isn't natively supported in Internet Explorer 9. Rickshaw adds support by including a shim which implements the classList API by extending the HTMLElement prototype. You can disable this behavior if you like, by setting RICKSHAW_NO_COMPAT to a true value before including the library.
Minification
If your project uses minification, you will need to give a hint to the minifier to leave variables named $super named $super. For example, with uglify on the command line:
$ uglify-js --reserved-names "$super" rickshaw.js > rickshaw.min.js
Or a sample configuration with grunt-contrib-uglify:
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: { except: ["$super"] }
}
}
Development
For building, we use Node and npm. Running npm run build or make should get you going with any luck.
After doing a build you can run the tests with the command: npm test
For more available options see the package.json scripts section.
Contributing
Pull requests are always welcome! Please follow a few guidelines:
- Please don't include updated versions of
rickshaw.js and rickshaw.min.js. Just changes to the source files will suffice.
- Add a unit test or two to cover the proposed changes
- Do as the Romans do and stick with existing whitespace and formatting conventions (i.e., tabs instead of spaces, etc)
- Consider adding a simple example under
examples/ that demonstrates any new functionality
Please note that all interactions with Shutterstock follow the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.
Authors
This library was developed by David Chester, Douglas Hunter, and Silas Sewell at Shutterstock
License
Copyright (C) 2011-2024 by Shutterstock Images, LLC
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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