Live chart in EJ2 JavaScript Chart control

8 May 20236 minutes to read

You can update a chart with live data by using the set interval.

To update live data in a chart, follow the given steps:

Step 1:

Initialize the chart with series.

import { Chart } from '@syncfusion/ej2-charts';

// initialize Chart component
let chart: Chart = new Chart(
    //Initializing Chart Series
    series:[
               type: 'Line',
    ]
);
// render initialized Chart
chart.appendTo('#container');

Step 2:

Update the data to series, and refresh the chart at specified interval by using the set interval.

To refresh the chart, invoke the refresh method.

var series1 = [];
var value = 10;
var i;
var intervalId;

for (i = 0; i < 50; i++) { // Data update
    if (Math.random() > .5) {
        value += Math.random() * 2.0;
    }
    series1[i] = { x: i, y: value };
}

var chart = new ej.charts.Chart({
    series: [
            {
                type: 'Line',
                dataSource: series1,
                xName: 'x',
                yName: 'y', animation: { enable: false }
            },
        ],
    width:'650px',
    height: '350px'
    },'#element');

    var setTimeoutValue = 100;
    intervalId = setInterval(
        function() {
if (document.getElementById('container') === null) {
        clearInterval(intervalId);
    } else {
    if (Math.random() > .5) {
        value += Math.random() * 2.0;
    }
    series1.push({ x: i, y: value });
    i++;
    series1.shift(); // Used to remove the first element
    chart.series[0].dataSource = series1;
    chart.refresh();
    }
    }, setTimeoutValue);
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>EJ2 Animation</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div class="col-sm-8">
            <div class="row">
                <div class="col-sm-4">  
                  <div id="container">
                    <div id="element" style="width:350px; height:350px;float:left">
                    </div>
                    <label id="lbl"></label>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <div class="col-sm-4" style="width:200px; height:350px;float: right">
                  <div id="Grid">
                  </div>
                </div>
            </div>
    </div>
 
<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>