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Displaying customized labels for each coordinates in node.js using chart.js.

Graph demo / output of below code

The above image is the output of the code for this article.If you are desiring the same, you can continue reading this page.

To display customize data labels for each coordinate in node.js using chart.js is a bit different or difficult. I did it by importing another third-party library that was definitely hard to implement initially, I had to read the documentation and went through many StackOverflow answers to find the solutions. So here I am documenting all of it together.

Note: I assume you already have installed and use chart.js and chartjs-node-canvas, if not you can check out this link

Installing packages

First install chartjs-plugin-datalabels

npm i chartjs-plugin-datalabels;
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Now require it into your file :

const ChartDataLabels = require('chartjs-plugin-datalabels');
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Then you need to write

const chartJsFactory = () => {
    const Chart = require('chart.js');
    require('chartjs-plugin-datalabels');
    delete require.cache[require.resolve('chart.js')];
    delete require.cache[require.resolve('chartjs-plugin-datalabels')];
    return Chart;
    }
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Next, you need to customize the callback

const chartCallback = (ChartJS) => {
    ChartJS.plugins.register({
        ChartDataLabels
    });
};
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Now for using this, you need to pass it on service like this:

const canvasRenderService = new CanvasRenderService(width, height, chartCallback, undefined,chartJsFactory);
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Customizing Plugin

You customize the plugin inside the nested object like this

configuration = {
  options:{
      plugin:{

      }
  }
}
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Now you can customize the plugin as the way you want.I have written few customizable elements, you can checkout the documentation for more here

plugins: {
    datalabels: {
        align: function(context) {
            return -45;
          },

        color: function(context) {
            return context.dataset.borderColor;
          },

        font: {
            size: 20,
            weight: 500
          },


        display: 'auto',  //hides overlapping data labels

        formatter: function(value, context) {
            if(value.indexLabel == '100%') {
                return 'Peak'
            }
            return value.indexLabel ;
        },
    }
  }
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Final code

Thank you for reading it till here. I hope it helps you.Below is the final code.

const { CanvasRenderService } = require('chartjs-node-canvas');
const ChartDataLabels = require('chartjs-plugin-datalabels');
const fs = require("fs");

const chartJsFactory = () => {
    const Chart = require('chart.js');
    require('chartjs-plugin-datalabels');
    delete require.cache[require.resolve('chart.js')];
    delete require.cache[require.resolve('chartjs-plugin-datalabels')];
    return Chart;
    }

const width = 1600;
const height = 750;
const chartCallback = (ChartJS) => {

    ChartJS.defaults.global.elements.point.pointStyle = "star";
    ChartJS.defaults.global.elements.point.radius = "4",
    ChartJS.defaults.global.elements.point.defaultFontSize = "90px",
    ChartJS.plugins.register({
        ChartDataLabels
    });


};
const canvasRenderService = new CanvasRenderService(width, height, chartCallback, undefined,chartJsFactory);


const createImage = async () => {
    let dataset1=[],dataset2=[],dataset3=[];

        dataset1 = [{x:123,y:45,indexLabel:'25%'},{x:115,y:65,indexLabel:'55%'},{x:128,y:195,indexLabel:'75%'},{x:723,y:145,indexLabel:'100%'}];
        dataset2 = [{x:239,y:27,indexLabel:'25%'},{x:498,y:25,indexLabel:'55%'},{x:318,y:95,indexLabel:'75%'},{x:933,y:195,indexLabel:'100%'}]


    const configuration = {
        type: 'line',
          data: {
              labels: [0,150,300,450,600,750,900,1050],
              datasets: [{
                  label: 'legend1',
                  data: dataset1,
                  fill: false,
                  borderColor: 'blue',
                  borderWidth: 3,
                  showLine: true,
                  xAxisID: 'xAxis1'
              },
              {
                  label: 'legend2',
                  data: dataset2,
                  fill: false,
                  borderColor: 'red',
                  borderWidth: 3,
                  xAxisID: 'xAxis1'
              }
              ],

          },
          options: {
            legend: {
                labels: {
                    filter: function(item, chart) {
                        return !item.text.includes('legend2'); // hides a particular legend
                    },
                    fontSize: 18
                }
            },
                  scales: {
                  xAxes:[
                      {
                    type:'linear'
                      id:'xAxis1',
                        ticks: {
                            beginAtZero: false,
                            max: 1000,
                            stepSize:50,
                            fontSize: 18,

                        },
                        scaleLabel: {
                            display: true,
                            labelString: 'x axis label',
                            fontSize: 20,
                            fontColor:'black'
                          },

                     },
                    ],
                    yAxes: [{
                    display: true,
                    ticks: {
                        max: 300,
                        stepSize: 20,
                        fontSize: 18
                    },
                    scaleLabel: {
                        display: true,
                        labelString: 'y axis label',
                        fontSize: 20,
                        fontColor:'black'
                    }
                }],
              },

            plugins: {
                datalabels: {
                    align: function(context) {
                        return -45;
                      },

                    color: function(context) {
                        return context.dataset.borderColor;
                      },

                    font: {
                        size: 20,
                        weight: 500
                      },


                    display: 'auto',  //hides overlapping data labels

                    formatter: function(value, context) {
                        if(value.indexLabel == '100%') {
                            return 'Peak'
                        }
                        return value.indexLabel ;
                    },
                }
              }
          }
          }

    const dataUrl = await canvasRenderService.renderToDataURL(configuration);
    return dataUrl;
};

module.exports = {
createImage
}
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Adios Amigo.

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Parimal Prajapati • Edited

Can you help me for my issue?
I want to begin from zero on the y-axis but after zero directly want to show dataset value on the y-axis as per I have attached image.
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