Using AWS QuickSight with React

Data Visualization Introduction

Data is the lifeblood of any modern business, and having the right tools to analyze and visualize it can make a huge difference in your decision-making and performance. However, building and maintaining a custom data analytics solution can be costly and time-consuming, especially if you need to support multiple users and devices.

That's where Quicksight comes in. Quicksight is a fully managed, serverless business intelligence service for the Amazon Web Services Cloud that makes it easy to extend data and insights to every user in your organization. You can use Quicksight to create interactive dashboards and visualizations from various data sources and share them securely with your team or customers.

But what if you want to embed Quicksight dashboards in your web application? What if you want to customize the look and feel of your dashboards, or integrate them with other UI elements or functionalities? That's where React comes in. React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It lets you create reusable components that can render dynamic data and handle user interactions. React is designed around the notion of generated HTML as opposed to templated HTML, which provides more flexibility and performance.

In this blog post, we will show you how to use Quicksight and React together to embed Quicksight dashboards in your React application. We will walk you through the steps of setting up your AWS credentials, region, and Quicksight dashboard ID, using the AWS SDK for JavaScript and the Quicksight Embedding SDK to get the dashboard URL, and using React hooks or components to render the dashboard element in your application. We will also show you how to customize the embedded dashboard by passing options to the embedDashboard method. By the end of this post, you will have a better understanding of how to leverage the power of Quicksight and the flexibility of React to create stunning data-driven web applications.

QuickSight - QuickSummary

Quicksight is a fully managed, serverless business intelligence service for the Amazon Web Services Cloud that makes it easy to extend data and insights to every user in your organization. You can use Quicksight to create interactive dashboards and visualizations from various data sources.

• React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It lets you create reusable components that can render dynamic data and handle user interactions. React is designed around the notion of generated HTML as opposed to templated HTML, which provides more flexibility and performance.

• You can use Quicksight and React together to embed Quicksight dashboards in your React application. This way, you can leverage the power of Quicksight to analyze and visualize your data, and the flexibility of React to customize and integrate your user interface.

• To embed Quicksight dashboards in your React application, you need to use the AWS SDK for JavaScript and the Quicksight Embedding SDK. You also need to configure your AWS credentials, region, and Quicksight dashboard ID. You can use the @aws-sdk/client-quicksight package to interact with the Quicksight API and get the dashboard URL.

• Once you have the dashboard URL, you can use the QuicksightEmbedding.embedDashboard method to create an embedded dashboard object. You can then use the getDashboardDomElement method to get the DOM element that contains the dashboard. You can use React hooks or components to render the dashboard element in your application.

• You can also customize the embedded dashboard by passing options to the embedDashboard method. For example, you can specify the height and width of the dashboard, enable or disable default UI elements, set parameters or filters, handle errors or events, etc.

Setup AWS QuickSight for ReactJS

Here’s a brief guide on how to set up AWS QuickSight for a React project:

1. Sign in to AWS Management Console and navigate to the QuickSight service.

2. Create a new analysis by clicking on the “New analysis” button.

3. Connect to your data source by selecting “New data set” and choosing the appropriate data source type.

4. Import your data into QuickSight by following the prompts and configuring the necessary settings.

5. Create visualizations by dragging and dropping fields onto the canvas and customizing their properties.

6. Embed QuickSight into your React application by using the Embedding SDK provided by AWS.

Please note that this is just a brief overview of the process and there may be additional steps involved depending on your specific needs and requirements.