vue-gauge

This is a Vue JS component plugin to create gauge charts, which are dynamic and animated. Some styling can be customised to change the look and feel of the gauge to match your required look or theme.

Installation

This is available as an NPM package, it can be installed via one of the following.

NPM

npm i @chrisheanan/vue-gauge -S

Yarn

yarn add @chrisheanan/vue-gauge

Usage

This is a minumum working example:

<template>
    <gauge
        heading="A title goes here"
        :min="0"
        :max="100"
        :value="exampleValue"
    />
</template>

<script>
import Gauge from '@chrisheanan/vue-gauge';

export default {
  components: {
    Gauge
  },
  data() {
    return {
      exampleValue: 35
    };
  }
};

Demo

To run the demo for the package just run the serve script...

npm run serve

or if you use yarn...

yarn serve

Then visit the following in your browser

http://localhost:8080

Props

The gauge component has the following props

Prop	Description	Type	Required	Default
value	Value the pointer is set/pointing at	Number	TRUE
heading	Sets the title/heading for the gauge chart	String	FALSE	null
headingLevel	Sets the H tag with this number, so the default of 2 creates a <h2> title tag	Number	FALSE	2
padding	Sets a default padding of 1em around the gauge component	Boolean	FALSE	TRUE
fontSize	Sets the base font size for the component	String	FALSE	"1em"
min	Minimum limit of the gauge value	Number	TRUE
minThresholdFill	Set the colour for the arc, when in the value is within the minimum threshold limit	String	FALSE	"none"
minLabel	If used, overrides what is displayed at the maximum point label	String	FALSE	null
max	Maximum limit of the gauge value	Number	TRUE
maxThresholdFill	Set the colour for the arc, when in the value is within the maximum threshold limit	String	FALSE	"none"
maxLabel	If used, overrides what is displayed at the mimimum point label	String	FALSE	null
maxThreshold	Sets the threshold limit on the maximum side of the arc	Number	FALSE	null
minThreshold	Sets the threshold limit on the minimum side of the arc	Number	FALSE	null
dp	Number of decimal places displayed on the value label	Number	FALSE	0
unit	Unit to be displayed after labels	String	FALSE	null
unitOnArc	Show the unit, if set, on the min and max labels	Boolean	FALSE	TRUE
labelsOnArc	Show the min and max labels	Boolean	FALSE	TRUE
valueToExceedLimits	If set, the value will display above or below the min and max limitations, otherwise the display value will be cap to the min and max limits	Boolean	FALSE	FALSE
radius	Set the radius of the gauge chart	Number	FALSE	215
thickness	Sets the thickness of the gauge arc	Number	FALSE	70
activeFill	Set the colour for the used/active part of the arc	String	FALSE	"currentcolor"
inactiveFill	Set the colour for the unused/unactive part of the arc	String	FALSE	"currentcolor"
pointerGap	Set the angle in degrees for the gap between the pointer and the arc	Number	FALSE	4
pointerStroke	Set the colour storke/outline for the gauge needle	String	FALSE	"currentcolor"
pointerStrokeWidth	Set the width/thickness for the gauge needle	Number	FALSE	14
pivotRadius	Sets the radius for the gauge needle dot	Number	FALSE	20
pivotStrokeWidth	Set the width/thickness for the gauge needle dot	Number	FALSE	2
pivotStroke	Set the colour storke/outline for the gauge needle dot	String	FALSE	"currentcolor"
pivotFill	Set the colour fill for the gauge needle dot	String	FALSE	"currentcolor"
svgStyle	Set additional css styling on the gague svg element, it is a JavaScript object You can use either camelCase or kebab-case (use quotes with kebab-case) for the CSS property names	Object	FALSE	{}

Author

Christopher David Heanan

License

This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause

Copyright 2020 Christopher David Heanan

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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