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Line Chart API

Everything you need to wire up a line chart in code; for the story and demos, see the Line Chart demo.

Import

ts
import "@michi-vz/wc/line-chart";
// <michi-vz-line-chart> is now defined
ts
import { mountLineChart } from "@michi-vz/core";

const chart = mountLineChart(el, props);

Props

PropTypeDefaultDescription
dataSet*LineDataItem[]Array of line series, each with its own points
titlestringOptional chart title rendered above the plot
yAxisDomain[number, number]Fix the y-axis range as [min, max] instead of deriving it from the data
xAxisDataType"date_annual" | "date_monthly" | "number""number"How x values are parsed and formatted: yearly dates, monthly dates, or plain numbers
xAxisFormat(d: number | string) => stringFormats an x tick value into its display label
yAxisFormat(d: number | string) => stringFormats a y tick value into its display label
ticksnumber5Approximate number of axis ticks to generate
tickValuesArray<number | Date>Explicit tick values, overriding the generated ones
curve"curveBumpX" | "curveLinear" | "curveMonotoneX"Default interpolation for every series (per-series `curve` wins).
detectGapsbooleanfalseAuto-derive `certainty` from missing periods (dashes the gap segment).
expectedStepnumberExpected cadence in axis units; REQUIRED for xAxisDataType "number".
showDataPointsbooleanfalseWhether to draw a marker at each data point (default false)
enableMouseLinebooleanfalseWhether to show a dashed vertical crosshair line that tracks the cursor (default false)
singlePointLineboolean | SinglePointLineConfigtrue / config draws a horizontal guide line for single-point series.
filterFilterTop-N / sort filter applied to the data before rendering
tooltipFormatter(d: DataPoint, series: DataPoint[], dataSet: LineDataItem[]) => stringReturns custom tooltip HTML for a hovered datum (sanitized before it is inserted)
onHighlightItem(labels: string[]) => voidCalled when the hovered/highlighted label(s) change
Common props — shared by every chart (14)
PropTypeDefaultDescription
widthnumber1000Chart width in pixels
heightnumber500Chart height in pixels
marginMargin{ top: 50, right: 50, bottom: 50, left: 60 }Inner margins (top/right/bottom/left, in px) reserved for axes, titles, and labels
colorsstring[]Categorical palette for series/labels without an explicit colour or colorsMapping entry
colorsMappingRecord<string, string>Explicit label -> colour map; takes precedence over the palette and per-item colours
highlightItemsstring[]Labels to emphasise; all other marks dim
disabledItemsstring[]Labels to hide and exclude from scales/stacks
renderer"svg" | "canvas""svg"Render as inline SVG (default) or to a canvas (faster for large datasets); getContext() is identical either way
localestringBCP-47 locale used for number and date formatting
skipColorMappingDispatchbooleanfalseExternal-CSS mode: unmapped labels resolve to transparent and onColorMappingGenerated is not emitted, so mark colours come from your CSS via the data-label-safe contract
enableTransitionsbooleantrueAnimate updates with CSS transitions (default true)
onColorMappingGenerated(mapping: Record<string, string>) => voidCalled with the resolved label -> colour map after the chart assigns colours
onChartDataProcessed(context: ChartContext) => voidCalled with the renderer-agnostic ChartContext whenever the data is (re)processed
onDataWarning(warnings: DataWarning[]) => voidCalled with any non-fatal data warnings (duplicate labels, non-finite values, gaps, ...)

Events

The web component dispatches these bubbling CustomEvents (the engine exposes the same via the on* callbacks in the table above):

EventDetailFires when
michi-vz:highlightstring[]hover highlight changes
michi-vz:colormappingRecord<string, string>a color mapping is generated
michi-vz:dataprocessedChartContextdata is (re)processed
michi-vz:datawarningDataWarning[]input warnings are detected

getContext()

mountLineChart(el, props).getContext() returns a renderer-agnostic LineChartContext (structured stats + a deterministic natural-language summary + an a11y table). See LLM context.

Source

Props are typed as LineChartProps in @michi-vz/core.

Free and open source. MIT licensed.