Add SurveyJS Dashboard to a React Application

This step-by-step tutorial will help you get started with SurveyJS Dashboard in a React application. To add SurveyJS Dashboard to your application, follow the steps below:

• Install the survey-analytics npm Package
• Configure Styles
• Load Survey Results
• Configure the Visualization Panel
• Render the Visualization Panel

As a result, you will create the following dashboard:

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SurveyJS Dashboard is distributed as a survey-analytics npm package. Run the following command to install it:

npm install survey-analytics --save

SurveyJS Dashboard depends on the Plotly.js and Wordcloud libraries. Wordcloud is used to visualize the Text, Multiple Text, and Comment question types. Plotly.js is used to visualize the rest of the question types. The command above installs both these libraries as dependencies.

Import the SurveyJS Dashboard style sheet as shown below:

import 'survey-analytics/survey.analytics.min.css';

You can access survey results as a JSON object within the SurveyModel's onComplete event handler. Send the results to your server and store them with a specific survey ID. Refer to the Handle Survey Completion help topic for more information.

To load the survey results, send the survey ID to your server and return an array of JSON objects:

// ...
import { useState } from 'react';

const SURVEY_ID = 1;

export default function App() {
  const [vizPanel, setVizPanel] = useState(null);

  if (!vizPanel && !!survey) {
    loadSurveyResults("https://your-web-service.com/" + SURVEY_ID)
      .then((surveyResults) => {
        // ...
        // Configure the Visualization Panel here
        // Refer to the help topics below
        // ...
      });
  }

  return ();
}

function loadSurveyResults (url) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    request.open('GET', url);
    request.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    request.onload = () => {
      const response = request.response ? JSON.parse(request.response) : [];
      resolve(response);
    }
    request.onerror = () => {
      reject(request.statusText);
    }
    request.send();
  });
}

For demonstration purposes, this tutorial uses predefined survey results. The following code shows a survey model and the structure of the survey results array:

const surveyJson = {
  elements: [{
    name: "satisfaction-score",
    title: "How would you describe your experience with our product?",
    type: "radiogroup",
    choices: [
      { value: 5, text: "Fully satisfying" },
      { value: 4, text: "Generally satisfying" },
      { value: 3, text: "Neutral" },
      { value: 2, text: "Rather unsatisfying" },
      { value: 1, text: "Not satisfying at all" }
    ],
    isRequired: true
  }, {
    name: "nps-score",
    title: "On a scale of zero to ten, how likely are you to recommend our product to a friend or colleague?",
    type: "rating",
    rateMin: 0,
    rateMax: 10,
  }],
  showQuestionNumbers: "off",
  completedHtml: "Thank you for your feedback!",
};

const surveyResults = [{
  "satisfaction-score": 5,
  "nps-score": 10
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 5,
  "nps-score": 9
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 3,
  "nps-score": 6
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 3,
  "nps-score": 6
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 2,
  "nps-score": 3
}];

Analytics charts are displayed in a Visualization Panel. Specify its properties in a configuration object. In this tutorial, the object enables the allowHideQuestions property:

const vizPanelOptions = {
  allowHideQuestions: false
}

Pass the configuration object, survey questions, and results to the VisualizationPanel constructor as shown in the code below to instantiate the Visualization Panel. Assign the produced instance to a constant that will be used later to render the component:

// ...
import { useState } from 'react';
import { Model } from 'survey-core';
import { VisualizationPanel } from 'survey-analytics';

const surveyJson = { /* ... */ };
const surveyResults = [ /* ... */ ];
const vizPanelOptions = { /* ... */ };

export default function App() {
  const [survey, setSurvey] = useState(null);
  const [vizPanel, setVizPanel] = useState(null);
  if (!survey) {
    const survey = new Model(surveyJson);
    setSurvey(survey);
  }

  if (!vizPanel && !!survey) {
    const vizPanel = new VisualizationPanel(
      survey.getAllQuestions(),
      surveyResults,
      vizPanelOptions
    );
    setVizPanel(vizPanel);
  }

  return ();
}

import { useState } from 'react';
import 'survey-analytics/survey.analytics.min.css';
import { Model } from 'survey-core';
import { VisualizationPanel } from 'survey-analytics';

const surveyJson = {
  elements: [{
    name: "satisfaction-score",
    title: "How would you describe your experience with our product?",
    type: "radiogroup",
    choices: [
      { value: 5, text: "Fully satisfying" },
      { value: 4, text: "Generally satisfying" },
      { value: 3, text: "Neutral" },
      { value: 2, text: "Rather unsatisfying" },
      { value: 1, text: "Not satisfying at all" }
    ],
    isRequired: true
  }, {
    name: "nps-score",
    title: "On a scale of zero to ten, how likely are you to recommend our product to a friend or colleague?",
    type: "rating",
    rateMin: 0,
    rateMax: 10,
  }],
  showQuestionNumbers: "off",
  completedHtml: "Thank you for your feedback!",
};

const surveyResults = [{
  "satisfaction-score": 5,
  "nps-score": 10
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 5,
  "nps-score": 9
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 3,
  "nps-score": 6
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 3,
  "nps-score": 6
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 2,
  "nps-score": 3
}];

const vizPanelOptions = {
  allowHideQuestions: false
}

export default function App() {
  const [survey, setSurvey] = useState(null);
  const [vizPanel, setVizPanel] = useState(null);
  if (!survey) {
    const survey = new Model(surveyJson);
    setSurvey(survey);
  }

  if (!vizPanel && !!survey) {
    const vizPanel = new VisualizationPanel(
      survey.getAllQuestions(),
      surveyResults,
      vizPanelOptions
    );
    vizPanel.showHeader = false;
    setVizPanel(vizPanel);
  }

  return ();
}
</script>

A Visualization Panel should be rendered in a page element. Add this element to the component markup:

export default function App() {
  // ...
  return (
    <div id="surveyVizPanel" />
  );
}

To render the Visualization Panel in the page element, call the render(containerId) method on the Visualization Panel instance you created in the previous step:

import { ..., useEffect } from 'react';

export default function App() {
  // ...

  useEffect(() => {
    vizPanel.render("surveyVizPanel");
    return () => {
      document.getElementById("surveyVizPanel").innerHTML = "";
    }
  }, [vizPanel]);

  // ...
}

To view the application, run npm run start in a command line and open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import 'survey-analytics/survey.analytics.min.css';
import { Model } from 'survey-core';
import { VisualizationPanel } from 'survey-analytics';

const surveyJson = {
  elements: [{
    name: "satisfaction-score",
    title: "How would you describe your experience with our product?",
    type: "radiogroup",
    choices: [
      { value: 5, text: "Fully satisfying" },
      { value: 4, text: "Generally satisfying" },
      { value: 3, text: "Neutral" },
      { value: 2, text: "Rather unsatisfying" },
      { value: 1, text: "Not satisfying at all" }
    ],
    isRequired: true
  }, {
    name: "nps-score",
    title: "On a scale of zero to ten, how likely are you to recommend our product to a friend or colleague?",
    type: "rating",
    rateMin: 0,
    rateMax: 10,
  }],
  showQuestionNumbers: "off",
  completedHtml: "Thank you for your feedback!",
};

const surveyResults = [{
  "satisfaction-score": 5,
  "nps-score": 10
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 5,
  "nps-score": 9
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 3,
  "nps-score": 6
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 3,
  "nps-score": 6
}, {
  "satisfaction-score": 2,
  "nps-score": 3
}];

const vizPanelOptions = {
  allowHideQuestions: false
}

export default function App() {
  const [survey, setSurvey] = useState(null);
  const [vizPanel, setVizPanel] = useState(null);
  if (!survey) {
    const survey = new Model(surveyJson);
    setSurvey(survey);
  }

  if (!vizPanel && !!survey) {
    const vizPanel = new VisualizationPanel(
      survey.getAllQuestions(),
      surveyResults,
      vizPanelOptions
    );
    vizPanel.showHeader = false;
    setVizPanel(vizPanel);
  }

  useEffect(() => {
    vizPanel.render("surveyVizPanel");
    return () => {
      document.getElementById("surveyVizPanel").innerHTML = "";
    }
  }, [vizPanel]);

  return (
    <div id="surveyVizPanel" />
  );
}

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