Every element that a Victory component renders may be altered or completely replaced. Most components expose dataComponent, labelComponent, groupComponent, and containerComponent props. The primitive components that Victory components render by default are simple, stateless components with a consistent set of props whenever possible. These primitive components are exported for users to alter, wrap, extend and reference when creating custom components.

Victory components set props on their primitive components, but these may be overridden or augmented by setting props directly on the primitive component instances.

  <VictoryBar
    data={[
      {x: 1, y: 3, label: "Alpha"},
      {x: 2, y: 4, label: "Bravo"},
      {x: 3, y: 6, label: "Charlie"},
      {x: 4, y: 3, label: "Delta"},
      {x: 5, y: 7, label: "Echo"},
    ]}
    labelComponent={
      <VictoryLabel angle={90} verticalAnchor="middle" textAnchor="end"/>
    }
  />

Victory components may be wrapped to customize or change behavior. Wrapper components should apply any props they receive from other Victory components to the components they render.

class WrapperComponent extends React.Component {
  renderChildren() {
    const children = React.Children.toArray(this.props.children);
    return children.map((child) => {
      // children should be rendered with props from their parent Victory components assigned
      // Components like `VictoryChart` expect to control props like `domain` for their children
      // Some props should be merged rather than overridden
      const style = _.merge(child.props.style, this.props.style);
      return React.cloneElement(child, Object.assign({}, child.props, this.props, { style }));
    });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <g transform="translate(20, 40)">
        <VictoryLabel text={"add labels"} x={110} y={30}/>
        <VictoryLabel text={"offset data from axes"} x={70} y={150}/>
        <VictoryLabel text={"alter props"} x={280} y={150}/>
        { this.renderChildren() }
      </g>
    );
  }
}

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <VictoryChart>
        <WrapperComponent>
          <VictoryScatter
            y={(d) => Math.sin(2 * Math.PI * d.x)}
            samples={15}
            symbol="square"
            size={6}
            style={{ data: { stroke: "tomato", strokeWidth: 3 }}}
          />
        </WrapperComponent>
      </VictoryChart>
    );
  }
}
render(<App/>);

Any component that renders valid svg elements (or elements wrapped in <foreignObject>) may be used as a dataComponent or labelComponent in Victory components. Custom components will be provided with the same props as default components. In the following example, a custom CatPoint component is used in place of Point in VictoryScatter.

class CatPoint extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const {x, y, datum} = this.props;
    const cat = datum._y >= 0 ? "😻" : "😹";
    return (
      <text x={x} y={y} fontSize={30}>
        {cat}
      </text>
    );
  }
}

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <VictoryChart>
        <VictoryScatter
          y={(d) =>
            Math.sin(2 * Math.PI * d.x)
          }
          samples={25}
          dataComponent={<CatPoint/>}
        />
      </VictoryChart>
    );
  }
}
render(<App/>);

More complex components may be supplied as direct children of VictoryChart. These components will have access to shared chart props such as scale. In the example below, the custom Polygon components draws a polygon based on a collection of points. The scale provided by VictoryChart is used to correctly position the points within the chart.

const SAMPLE_DATA = [
	{x: 2, y: 1},
	{x: 3, y: 5},
	{x: 6, y: 3}
];

class Polygon extends React.Component {
  getPoints(data, scale) {
    return data.reduce((pointStr, {x, y}) =>
			`${pointStr} ${scale.x(x)},${scale.y(y)}`
		, '');
  }

  render() {
    // data and style are explicitly supplied to the Polygon component
    // scale is provided by VictoryChart
    const { data, style, scale } = this.props;
    const points = this.getPoints(data, scale);
    return <polygon points={points} style={style}/>;
  }
}

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <VictoryChart
      height={400}
      width={400}
      domain={[-10, 10]}
    >
      <Polygon
        data={SAMPLE_DATA}
        style={{ fill: "tomato", opacity: 0.5 }}
      />
      <VictoryScatter
        data={SAMPLE_DATA}
      />
    </VictoryChart>;
  }
}

render(<App/>);

Other Victory components may even be used in creating custom components, as in the example below.

class CustomPie extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const {datum, x, y} = this.props;
    const pieWidth = 120;

    return (
      <g transform={
        `translate(${x - pieWidth / 2}, ${y - pieWidth / 2})`
        }
      >
        <VictoryPie
          standalone={false}
          height={pieWidth}
          width={pieWidth}
          data={datum.pie}
          style={{labels: {fontSize: 0}}}
          colorScale={["#f77", "#55e", "#8af"]}
        />
      </g>
    );
  }
}

class CustomDataComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const data = [
      {x: "Jan", y: 30},
      {x: "Feb", y: 32},
      {x: "Mar", y: 65},
      {x: "Apr", y: 38},
      {x: "May", y: 50},
      {x: "Jun", y: 47},
      {x: "Jul", y: 38},
      {x: "Aug", y: 48},
      {x: "Sep", y: 80},
      {x: "Oct", y: 73},
      {x: "Nov", y: 76},
      {x: "Dec", y: 100}
    ];

    const pieData = data.map((datum) => {
      datum.pie = [
        {x: "Lions", y: Math.round(Math.random() * 10)},
        {x: "Tigers", y: Math.round(Math.random() * 10)},
        {x: "Bears", y: Math.round(Math.random() * 10)}
      ];
      return datum;
    });

    return (
      <VictoryChart domain={{y: [0, 100]}}>
        <VictoryAxis/>
        <VictoryGroup data={pieData}>
          <VictoryLine/>
          <VictoryScatter
            dataComponent={<CustomPie />}
          />
        </VictoryGroup>
      </VictoryChart>
    );
  }
}

render(<CustomDataComponent/>);

Since any custom SVG element can be used as a Victory component, any styling system can be used to style custom components, including styled components, CSS modules, or inline styles.

Here's an example using SVG + styled components.

const StyledPoint = styled.circle`
  fill: ${(props) => props.color};
`;

const colors = ["#A8E6CE", "#DCEDC2", "#FFD3B5", "#FFAAA6", "#FF8C94"];

const ScatterPoint = ({ x, y, datum, min, max }) => {
  const i = React.useMemo(() => {
    return Math.floor(((datum.y - min) / (max - min)) * (colors.length - 1));
  }, [datum, min, max]);

  return <StyledPoint color={colors[i]} cx={x} cy={y} r={6} />;
};

const App = () => {
  const data = [
    { x: "Jan", y: 43 },
    { x: "Feb", y: 44 },
    { x: "Mar", y: 47 },
    { x: "Apr", y: 51 },
    { x: "May", y: 57 },
    { x: "Jun", y: 62 },
    { x: "Jul", y: 67 },
    { x: "Aug", y: 68 },
    { x: "Sep", y: 63 },
    { x: "Oct", y: 54 },
    { x: "Nov", y: 47 },
    { x: "Dec", y: 42 }
  ];

  const temperatures = data.map(({ y }) => y);
  const min = Math.min(...temperatures);
  const max = Math.max(...temperatures);

  return (
    <VictoryChart>
      <VictoryLine data={data} />
      <VictoryScatter
        data={data}
        dataComponent={<ScatterPoint min={min} max={max} />}
      />
    </VictoryChart>
  );
}

render(<App/>);