Build a React Data Dashboard App

NextJS, Typescript, MUI, ChartsJS

Project Setup

When building a data dashboard app with React, it’s important to start off with a solid project setup. In this article, we’ll walk through the initial steps of setting up a React data dashboard app using NextJS, Typescript, Material-UI (MUI), and ChartsJS.

1. Install Node.js

First, make sure you have Node.js installed on your machine. You can download and install it from the official Node.js website.

2. Create a New NextJS Project

Next, we’ll create a new NextJS project by running the following command in your terminal:

  npx create-next-app my-data-dashboard-app

This will create a new NextJS project with all the necessary files and dependencies to get started.

3. Add Typescript Support

To add Typescript support to our project, we’ll need to run the following command in the terminal:

  npm install --save-dev typescript @types/react @types/node

Next, rename your pages with the .tsx extension. This will allow us to write our components with Typescript instead of plain JavaScript.

4. Integrate Material-UI (MUI)

Material-UI is a popular React UI framework that provides a set of customizable components for building user interfaces. To integrate MUI into our project, we’ll need to run the following command in the terminal:

  npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled

We’ll also need to set up the MUI theme for our app by creating a new file called theme.ts and adding our custom theme configuration.

5. Incorporate ChartsJS

Finally, we’ll want to add data visualization to our data dashboard app using ChartsJS. We can install ChartsJS by running the following command in the terminal:

  npm install chart.js

After installing ChartsJS, we can create and customize our data visualization components to display the data on our dashboard.

Conclusion

With these initial project setup steps, we now have a solid foundation for building our React data dashboard app. We’ve set up a NextJS project with Typescript support, integrated Material-UI for UI components, and incorporated ChartsJS for data visualization. In the next article, we’ll dive into creating the layout and components for our data dashboard.