How to draw a polar area chart in react bootstrap ?

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Polar Area charts use a polar coordinate system, where its x-axis looks like a circle with the origin point as a center, and each point is determined by distance from a fixed point and angle from a fixed direction.

Prerequisites:

Steps to Create the React Application And Installing Module:

Step 1: Create a React application using the following command

npx create-react-app foldername

Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command.

cd foldername

Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required modules using the following command.

npm install --save mdbreact react-chartjs-2

Step 4: Add Bootstrap CSS and fontawesome CSS to index.js.

import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css'; 
import 'bootstrap-css-only/css/bootstrap.min.css'; 
import 'mdbreact/dist/css/mdb.css';

Project Structure:

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Project Structure

The updated dependencies in package.json file will look like:

"dependencies": {
 "mdbreact": "^5.2.0",
 "react": "^18.2.0",
 "react-chartjs-2": "^5.2.0",
 "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
 "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
 "web-vitals": "^2.1.4",
 }

Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code.

Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project: