Releases: whawker/react-jsx-highcharts
v5.0.1
v5.0.0
Breaking changes:
- Drop support for react < 17
- Drop support for highcharts < 9.1.2
- Drop support for old browsers. The supported browsers are:
- chrome >= 81
- edge >= 81
- firefox >= 78
- ios >= 12
- safari >= 12
New Features:
Other changes:
v4.3.2
react-jsx-highmaps@2.3.0
v4.3.1
v4.2.1
v4.2.0 🌿
New Features
React 17 support
This release enables React 17 support, with some minor changes to useEffect
clean ups now the clean up function is always run asynchronously - Thanks @anajavi! (see #310 and #315 )
Typescript definitions
This release adds Typescript definitions to the react-jsx-highcharts
only, we hope to add support for the other packages in future releases. - Thanks @anajavi (see #303)
v4.1.0
New features
containerProps
support
Added the ability to pass a containerProps
prop to the root component of a chart. This allows you to set HTML attributes on the container <div>
the chart is rendered in.
Configuring how series data is updated via jsxOptions
When the data
prop on your <Series />
component changes, React JSX Highcharts calls setData
on that series internally.
In some scenarios, you may want to override the the default arguments of setData
such as setting updatePoints
to false when working with large amounts of data in a series.
Example using default options - WARNING - clicking the Green button will crash your browser tab
Example overriding updatePoints
to false
via a jsxOptions
prop on a series
See #281
Bug fixes
Internal changes
- Following current best practice React is imported with
import * as React from 'react'
(see #292) - Updated to Prettier 2 (see #280)
Thanks to @anajavi, @veloek and @lezan for there support in creating this release.
Version 4!
Version 4 is a rewrite of the libraries using React hooks.
What's new in version 4:
- React re-render performance should be improved
- Full bundle size is around 25% smaller
- React DevTools shows a shallower tree which eases debugging
If you're already using React >= 16.8.6 chances are you will not need to make changes to your code, as the External API has not changed, but there are some breaking changes.
Breaking changes
Requires React 16.8.6 or higher
For React Hooks support
Requires Highcharts 8.0.0 or higher
ImmutableJS data structures are no longer supported
As Immutable itself is no longer maintained
Props are now shallow compared instead of version 3's deep equal checks.
This should make little difference, but you may find components are needlessly re-rendering if using bad practices like creating new objects or arrays on every render
/*
Bad practice - Here a new array is created on every render
These are not equal (in the JavaScript sense of object references) between two renders
*/
<LineSeries name='My series' data={[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]} />
/* Better practice */
const [data, setData] = useState([ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ])
<LineSeries name='My series' data={data} />
If you find this problematic, you can pass an isDataEqual
prop to override this behaviour.
This is a function that takes two arguments - the current data and the previous data, and returns a boolean.
(data, prevData) => boolean
=> TRUE - data is equal and should not cause a re-render
=> FALSE - data is NOT equal and SHOULD cause a re-render
You can restore the old behaviour by passing Lodash's isEqual
via the isDataEqual
prop.
import isEqual from 'lodash/isEqual'
<LineSeries name='My series' data={[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]} isDataEqual={isEqual} />
IE10 is no longer supported
Because it only has 1.5% global usage, and it's not worth our time.
IE11 is supported, but needs to be polyfilled to at least ES2015 level
You are probably already doing this with core-js.
If you are using create-react-app, please see this guide
The Higher Order components have been replaced by Hooks
This should not affect many users, these were an advanced feature for writing your own components
Higher order component | Hook |
---|---|
provideHighcharts |
useHighcharts |
provideChart |
useChart |
provideAxis |
useAxis |
provideSeries |
useSeries |
The old Higher Order components injected a prop, (i.e. getChart
) into your component, a function that returned an object.
The hooks work slightly differently - they directly return the object instead. This object is the same shape as before.
New features
Adds a Caption
component for setting Chart captions
<Caption>
This is a caption.
</Caption>
Adds support for Color Axes via the ColorAxis
component
<ColorAxis id="myColorAxis" min={0} max={30}>
<ColumnSeries .../>
</ColorAxis>
Hooks for extending the library
The library exposes several hooks for creating your own components, these are
useHighcharts
useChart
useAxis
useSeries
usePlotBandLine
Acknowledgements
This version literally would not have happened without @anajavi, who puts hours of their own time into the rewrite. I cannot thank you enough! Thank you so much @anajavi!
Version 4 - Alpha 1
Version 4 is a rewrite of the libraries using React hooks.
What's new in version 4:
- React rerender performance should be improved
- Full bundle size is around 25% smaller
- React devtools shows shallower tree which eases debugging
Most of the time upgrade to version 4 should go without changes to the code, but there are some breaking changes. If you are having problems with upgrade, be feed back via this issue
Breaking changes
- Requires React 16.8.6 or higher
- Requires Highcharts 7.2.0 or higher
- Drops support for immutable-js
- Props are now shallow compared instead of version 3's deep equal checks.
- Be sure you are not placing new objects or arrays to props, otherwise the components will rerender needlessly
- Minimum supported version of IE is 11
- IE needs to be polyfilled to at least ES2015 level, which you are probably already doing with core-js. If you are using create-react-app, please see https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/tree/master/packages/react-app-polyfill#user-content-polyfilling-other-language-features
These should not affect many users:
- provide methods are replaced with hooks:
provideHighcharts
-->useHighcharts
provideChart
-->useChart
provideAxis
-->useAxis
provideSeries
-->useSeries
- Values in Contexts are changed from functions to objects
New features
- Caption component for setting chart caption
<Caption>
This is a caption.
</Caption>
- Hooks for extending the library