How to create Livewire Chart in Laravel

Do you know that Livewire have a package allow us to easily create chart without JS? Today we gonna discuss about livewire-chart.

Laravel 8 livewire charts app tutorial from scratch. In this tutorial, we will show you how to implement column chart and area chart using livewire package in Laravel 8 app.

Sometimes need to display analytics and some data on charts in laravel 8 app.

So, this tutorial will guide you step by step on how to display data on column chart in Laravel 8 app using livewire package.

Livewire Charts In Laravel 8 App

• Step 1 — Install Laravel
• Step 2 — Connect App to Database
• Step 3 — Create Model & Migration using Artisan
• Step 4 — Install Livewire Package
• Step 5 — Install Livewire Charts Package
• Step 6— Build Livewire Component using Artisan Command
• Step 7 — Create Route
• Step 8 — Create View File
• Step 9 — Run Development Server

Step 1 — Install Laravel

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel myapp

Step 2 — Connect App to Database

In this step, Add database credentials in the .env file. So open your project root directory and find .env file. Then add database detail in .env file:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql  
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1  
DB_PORT=3306  
DB_DATABASE=here your database name here 
DB_USERNAME=here database username here 
DB_PASSWORD=here database password here

Step 3 — Run Migration

php artisan make:model Post -m

Then open create_posts_table.php and update the up() function, which is located inside database/migration directory: