Multi-Layer Radial Chart

Animated, Apple-Watch-style activity rings for React — rendered with pure SVG, zero chart dependencies.

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Overview

A high-performance, dependency-free React 19 + TypeScript library for multi-layer radial (activity-ring) charts. It takes an array of { value, max, color, label } items and renders concentric progress rings with smooth animated transitions. Built with a focus on clean architecture (math fully separated from the UI), performance (rAF-based tweening with proper cleanup), and robust, strict TypeScript (no any).

Key Features

• Pure SVG rendering: crisp at any DPI, responsive via viewBox, no canvas or heavy chart libs.
• Smooth animations: requestAnimationFrame tweening with ease-out cubic; honors prefers-reduced-motion.
• Fully responsive: recalculates radius and stroke widths from the container size via ResizeObserver, or pass a fixed size.
• Accessible by design: each ring is a role="progressbar" with aria-valuenow/min/max; optional legend and pattern (dashed) support so color is never the only indicator.
• Flexible layouts: full circle, gauge (270°) or semicircle (180°) via maxSweepDegrees; optional hover tooltip and centered content via children.
• Strictly typed & tree-shakeable: precise interfaces, ESM + CJS builds, sideEffects-aware, ships its own tiny CSS.

Architectural Highlights & Challenges Solved

Challenge: An SVG elliptical arc (A command) cannot draw a full 360° circle — start and end points coincide, so the arc collapses and renders nothing. Solution: describeArc detects a full sweep and emits two half-arcs instead, while still supporting partial sweeps (gauges/semicircles) through a single sweepDegrees parameter. All of this lives in a pure, unit-tested core/geometry module with zero React, keeping trigonometry completely separate from the rendering layer.

Challenge: Animating many rings without stale closures or leaked animation frames. Solution: A dedicated useAnimatedValue hook owns one requestAnimationFrame loop per ring, restarts cleanly from the currently displayed value when the target changes, and always cancels the frame on cleanup. Per-ring hooks live inside the RadialRing component (never inside a .map()), respecting the Rules of Hooks.

Tech Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, React 19, plain CSS + CSS variables (library); Tailwind CSS v4 (demo only)
• Core APIs: SVG, requestAnimationFrame, ResizeObserver, matchMedia
• Tooling: Vite (library mode), Vitest + Testing Library, ESLint (flat config + a local plugin), Prettier, Storybook, Changesets, size-limit

Installation

npm install multi-layer-radial-chart

React 19 is a peer dependency.

Usage

import { RadialChart } from "multi-layer-radial-chart";
import "multi-layer-radial-chart/styles.css";

const data = [
  { value: 82, max: 100, color: "#fb2576", label: "Move" },
  { value: 45, max: 60, color: "#22d3ee", label: "Exercise" },
  { value: 9, max: 12, color: "#a3e635", label: "Stand" },
];

export function Dashboard() {
  return (
    <RadialChart data={data} showLegend showTooltip>
      <strong>82%</strong>
    </RadialChart>
  );
}

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
data	RadialDatum[]	—	Series to render, outermost ring first.
size	number	responsive	Fixed pixel size; omit to size to the container width.
startAngle	number	-90	Angle (deg) where arcs begin (-90 = 12 o'clock).
gap	number	6	Pixel gap between rings.
ringWidth	number	auto	Fixed stroke width; auto-derived when omitted.
rounded	boolean	true	Round the arc line caps.
allowOverflow	boolean	false	Let values > max overrun as an overlapping extra lap.
animate	boolean	true	Animate value transitions.
animationDurationMs	number	800	Tween duration.
clockwise	boolean	true	Draw arcs clockwise.
maxSweepDegrees	number	360	Total sweep; 270 gauge, 180 semicircle.
showLegend	boolean	false	Render the built-in legend.
showTooltip	boolean	false	Show a hover tooltip per ring.
onSegmentClick	(datum, index) => void	—	Click/keyboard activate a ring (makes rings focusable).
onSegmentHover	(datum, index) => void	—	Fires on pointer enter/move over a ring.
onSegmentLeave	(datum, index) => void	—	Fires when the pointer leaves a ring.
className	string	—	Class applied to the outer container.
children	ReactNode	—	Content rendered in the chart's center.

Each RadialDatum is { value, max, color, label, trackColor?, pattern?, gradient?, threshold? } where pattern is "solid" | "dashed".

Overflow (values past 100%)

Set allowOverflow so a value greater than its max overruns the ring as an overlapping extra lap (Apple-Watch style) instead of clamping at 100%:

<RadialChart allowOverflow data={[{ value: 135, max: 100, color: "#fb2576", label: "Move" }]} />

Goal markers (threshold)

Give a datum a threshold (in the same units as value) to draw a tick on its track marking a goal. Style it with the --rc-marker-color CSS variable:

<RadialChart data={[{ value: 82, max: 100, color: "#fb2576", label: "Move", threshold: 90 }]} />

Interactivity (onSegmentClick / onSegmentHover)

Provide onSegmentClick to make each ring clickable and keyboard-focusable (Tab to focus, Enter/Space to activate). onSegmentHover / onSegmentLeave report pointer enter/leave and are independent of the built-in tooltip:

<RadialChart
  data={data}
  onSegmentClick={(datum, index) => console.log("clicked", index, datum.label)}
  onSegmentHover={(datum) => setActive(datum.label)}
/>

Focused rings show a :focus-visible outline you can theme with the --rc-focus-color CSS variable.

Gradient rings

Give any datum a gradient to fill its progress arc with an SVG-native linear or radial gradient (it overrides color):

const data = [
  {
    value: 82,
    max: 100,
    label: "Move",
    color: "#fb2576", // fallback if gradient is ignored
    gradient: {
      type: "linear", // "linear" | "radial"
      angle: 45,       // degrees, linear only (0 = left→right)
      stops: [
        { offset: 0, color: "#f472b6" },
        { offset: 1, color: "#8b5cf6" },
      ],
    },
  },
];

Note: SVG paint supports linear and radial gradients natively. A true conic (angular) gradient is not part of the SVG spec, so it is intentionally not offered.

Center content & count-up

Anything you pass as children is centered inside the rings. Use the useCountUp hook for an animated number:

import { RadialChart, useCountUp } from "multi-layer-radial-chart";

function Ring({ percent }: { percent: number }) {
  const value = useCountUp(percent, { durationMs: 1200 });
  return (
    <RadialChart data={[{ value: percent, max: 100, color: "#6366f1", label: "Goal" }]}>
      <strong>{value}%</strong>
    </RadialChart>
  );
}

Headless usage (useRadialChart)

Need full control over the markup? useRadialChart computes all the geometry (radii, stroke widths and ready-to-use SVG path strings) and renders nothing, so you can build your own SVG:

import { useRadialChart } from "multi-layer-radial-chart";

function CustomRings({ data }: { data: RadialDatum[] }) {
  const { size, rings } = useRadialChart(data, { size: 240, gap: 6 });
  return (
    <svg viewBox={`0 0 ${size} ${size}`} width={size} height={size}>
      {rings.map((ring, i) => (
        <g key={i}>
          <path d={ring.trackPath} fill="none" stroke="#eee" strokeWidth={ring.strokeWidth} />
          <path
            d={ring.progressPath}
            fill="none"
            stroke={ring.datum.color}
            strokeWidth={ring.strokeWidth}
            strokeLinecap="round"
          />
        </g>
      ))}
    </svg>
  );
}

The library also exports the lower-level building blocks — useAnimatedValue, useElementSize, useReducedMotion, describeArc, gradientVector, polarToCartesian, computeRingLayout, toFraction, toPercent — for advanced compositions.

Framework-agnostic core (multi-layer-radial-chart/core)

The math is fully decoupled from React. Import the /core subpath to get the pure geometry, scaling, layout, validation and color helpers with zero React in the dependency graph — use it from Vue, Svelte, Solid, vanilla JS, a <canvas> renderer, or on the server:

import { validateData, computeRingLayout, describeArc } from "multi-layer-radial-chart/core";

const data = [{ value: 82, max: 100, color: "#fb2576", label: "Move" }];
const rings = validateData(data);
const layout = computeRingLayout(rings.length, 240, 6);
const path = describeArc(120, 120, layout[0].radius, rings[0].fraction, -90, true);
// → feed `path` into any SVG/Canvas renderer

The /core entry exports describeArc, describeArcSegment, polarToCartesian, gradientVector, markerLine, computeRingLayout, toFraction, toPercent, toRawFraction, validateData, normalizeDatum, contrastingColor, contrastShadow, and all non-React types (RadialDatum, NormalizedDatum, RingGradient, Point, RingLayout, …).

Development

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/MosheHatab/multi-layer-radial-chart.git

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the demo playground
npm run dev

# Storybook
npm run storybook

# Verify everything
npm run typecheck && npm run lint && npm run test && npm run build && npm run size

Optional: the repository includes the ui-ux-pro-max design skill under .cursor/skills/ (used only for designing the demo). Its scripts require Python 3 (python --version; on Windows winget install Python.Python.3.12). It is not needed to build or use the library.

Deployment

• Demo → Vercel: builds with npm run build:demo to dist-demo/ (see vercel.json). Import the repo in Vercel once; it auto-deploys on push. Live at multi-layer-radial-chart-five.vercel.app.
• Storybook → GitHub Pages: the Deploy Storybook workflow publishes storybook-static/ (enable Pages with source "GitHub Actions" once). Live at moshehatab.github.io/multi-layer-radial-chart.

Publishing to npm

The package is versioned with Changesets. Pick one of the two flows below — don't mix them.

Automated (recommended): commit a changeset and let CI do the rest.

npm run changeset   # describe the change; pick the semver bump
git commit -am "feat: ..." && git push

On push to main, the Release workflow opens a "Version Packages" PR. Merging that PR bumps the version, updates CHANGELOG.md, and publishes to npm (requires the NPM_TOKEN repository secret).

Manual (from local): build, validate, and publish in one step.

npm run version       # applies pending changesets + updates CHANGELOG.md (skip for first publish)
npm run publish:safe  # build → publint + are-the-types-wrong → npm publish
git commit -am "release" && git push   # commit the version bump / changelog

publish:safe is idempotent-friendly: npm publish refuses to overwrite an existing version, and CI's changeset publish skips versions already on npm — so pushing after a manual publish never double-publishes. Package exports/types can be validated anytime without publishing via npm run check:package.

License

MIT © 2026 Moshe Hatab