Advanced JavaScript Reporting Tools

JavaScript Reporting Engine

The ActiveReportsJS JavaScript Reporting Engine enables seamless report loading and generation across devices, offering flexibility without server-side dependencies. Designed for browser environments, it integrates easily into web applications, ensuring high performance on desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms.

By generating reports client-side, ActiveReportsJS reduces deployment complexity and delivers fast, responsive reporting. Users can interact with reports in real time—filtering data, applying parameters, and exporting results—all within a JavaScript environment.

Optimized for modern workflows, ActiveReportsJS is compatible with JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, and Svelte, making it simple to embed reporting functionality into any application. Whether for enterprise solutions or small projects, ActiveReportsJS provides the tools to create powerful, accessible reports across any device.

• Getting Started Documentation

Cross-Platform Tools

The Standalone Report Designer in ActiveReportsJS lets you create interactive, customizable reports without server dependencies, offering a consistent experience on Windows, Mac, or Linux. Its intuitive drag-and-drop interface and rich customization options enable users of all levels to design sophisticated reports tailored to project needs. You can format data, add dynamic elements like charts and tables, and tweak appearance and behavior easily.

The designer also allows real-time previews, so you can see how your reports will look and function as you build them. With its cross-platform support, powerful features, and user-friendly design, the standalone report designer is ideal for creating dynamic, polished reports from anywhere.

• Getting Started Documentation
• Report Designer Interface Documentation

Powerful Data Binding

ActiveReportsJS simplifies data binding to REST APIs, OData, or GraphQL endpoints, enabling seamless integration of dynamic external data into reports without complex setups. This flexibility lets you build reports from a wide range of API sources, ideal for modern web applications.

Connecting to REST APIs is straightforward, allowing you to pull data via HTTP requests and bind it to report elements for real-time updates. OData endpoints offer structured querying, filtering, and pagination for efficient handling of large datasets. GraphQL endpoints provide even greater customization by allowing you to specify exactly which fields and relationships to query, optimizing data retrieval and performance.

With these advanced data binding options, ActiveReportsJS enables the creation of interactive, up-to-date reports that integrate effortlessly with modern data APIs and data sources.

• Databinding Documentation
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Flexible Report Layouts

In ActiveReportsJS, you can choose from three report layouts: Continuous, Fixed, and Pageless, each tailored to different needs.

• Continuous layout is ideal for digital reports like dashboards or lists, providing a seamless, scrollable view without page breaks—perfect for long datasets.

• Fixed layout suits print-ready reports, such as invoices or official documents, ensuring consistent element placement across pages for precise control in printed output.

• Pageless layout offers a blend of both, allowing fluid digital viewing while maintaining print-readiness without rigid page breaks.

Selecting the right layout enhances your report’s presentation, whether it’s for digital use or traditional print, ensuring optimal user experience and functionality.

• Report Layouts Documentation
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Rich Component Selection

The JavaScript Report Designer in ActiveReportsJS provides a flexible, customizable environment for building reports, seamlessly integrating with frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte. It offers a rich interface with controls and charts for creating tailored reports, along with features like themes, localization, and easy previewing and saving.

Key controls include:

• TextBox: Adds formatted text.

• Chart: Visualizes data with various chart types (bar, line, pie).

• Table: Displays tabular data with grouping and sorting.

• Image: Embeds images.

• Barcode: Adds tracking barcodes.

• Shape: Draws geometric shapes.

• Subreport: Embeds reports within reports for modular design.

These customizable controls help developers create sophisticated, dynamic reports.

• Designer Documentation
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Perfect Report View

The JavaScript Report Viewer in ActiveReportsJS provides a robust solution for seamless report viewing in web applications. Users can interact with reports in real-time without needing external plugins, ensuring a smooth experience across major browsers and high-performance rendering for complex reports.

The Report Viewer also features powerful export functionality, allowing users to export reports in formats like PDF, Excel, and HTML while preserving layout and data integrity. This is particularly useful for teams needing to share professional-grade reports in various formats.

Additionally, users can print reports directly from their browser with optimized layouts, eliminating the need for manual adjustments. Whether generating summary reports, financial statements, or dashboards, the viewer offers an all-in-one solution for viewing, exporting, and printing interactive reports.

• JSViewer Documentation
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Front-End Frameworks Support

ActiveReportsJS offers seamless integration with major JavaScript frameworks, making it a versatile reporting solution for both single-page applications (SPA) and multi-page web apps. It works natively with frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte, allowing developers to create, view, and export reports with minimal setup.

For Angular, a well-documented API enhances the ActiveReportsJS Viewer, leveraging powerful data binding for dynamic visualizations. In React, the component-based architecture allows easy embedding of the report viewer, ensuring interactive reports fit naturally into the UI.

Integration with Vue and Svelte is equally simple, with components that manage data and events effortlessly. ActiveReportsJS also supports modern environments like Vite, Next.js, and Nuxt.js, facilitating dynamic report generation and viewing for advanced web applications. Overall, its flexibility ensures straightforward integration across various frameworks.

• Integration Documentation
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Standalone Report Designer

Streamline report creation with our cross-platform report designer. Effortlessly connect to data sources, build data sets, define interactive parameters, and embed subreports for a comprehensive reporting experience.

Install on your OS

The standalone report designer can be installed on Windows, Mac, or Desktop Linux.

User-friendly Interface

Create printable, analytical, or interactive reports using the intuitive interface and a rich set of data visualization components.

JSON Report Templates

Save report templates in JSON format and integrate them into your application as static resources or dynamic modules.

• Getting Started Documentation

Embeddable JavaScript Report Designer

Integrate the JavaScript Report Designer component into your application and allow end-users to design reports within the browser. With all of the functionality of the standalone report designer, users will be able to build and save their reports anytime, anywhere.

Flexible Integration

Use the API to define the application-specific functions for creating, saving, opening, and previewing your reports.

Rich Customization

Change the color scheme using one of the pre-defined themes or create your own theme.

Multilingual Support

Provide your users with the translated texts for the viewer UI elements such as tooltips and buttons.

• Getting Started Documentation
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Embeddable JavaScript Report Viewer

Easily embed the JavaScript Report Designer into your web applications, enabling users to design and preview reports directly in the browser without complex server setups. This client-side solution empowers users to create and customize reports on the fly using a drag-and-drop interface, whether starting from scratch or with templates.

Full Design Functionality

The embedded designer includes all the robust features of the standalone version—data binding, dynamic layouts, and rich text formatting. Users can refine reports with filters, groupings, and expressions for detailed analysis.

Flexible, Responsive, and Accessible

Fully responsive, the designer allows users to build and save reports anytime, anywhere, ensuring seamless access from any device, supporting collaboration and flexibility in report creation.

• Getting Started Documentation
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Tabular Reports

ActiveReportsJS simplifies the creation of Tabular Reports like inventory lists and product catalogs, organizing structured data in a multirow, multicolumn layout for easy analysis. Its flexible designer enables advanced features such as conditional formatting, grouping, sorting, and filtering, allowing you to highlight key data, organize information, and display only relevant content.

Extensive customization options let you adjust column widths, fonts, and colors to create polished, professional reports. The designer also supports user input for interactive, real-time updates, making your reports dynamic and responsive. With these powerful tools, ActiveReportsJS streamlines the process of building tailored, visually appealing tabular reports for any application.

• Getting Started Documentation
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Banded Reports

Banded Reports in ActiveReportsJS are perfect for displaying list-like data, such as product catalogs or employee directories. They offer flexible, clear data presentation using multiple customizable sections, like headers, footers, and detail bands. Each section serves a specific role, enabling precise structuring of information, such as listing products or employees with clarity and visual appeal.

Unlike grid-based layouts, Banded Reports allow for free-form design, giving you full control over element placement. This flexibility lets you create complex, visually distinct reports that enhance readability. Whether for internal use or external stakeholders, Banded Reports help organize and present data effectively, making them a powerful tool for any report-generation needs in ActiveReportsJS.

• Banded Reports Documentation
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Fixed Reports

Fixed Layout Reports in ActiveReportsJS are perfect for creating pre-printed forms like purchase orders, quotes, and parking tickets. With precise element positioning, you can replicate exact templates, making these reports ideal for official documents requiring strict formatting.

Users can interact with the final output directly in the browser, ensuring accuracy before printing or taking further actions. Fixed Layout Reports print with precision, aligning perfectly with pre-printed stationery, and can be exported to formats like PDF or Excel for easy sharing and archiving.

Whether sending a purchase order to a supplier or sharing a quote, Fixed Layout Reports ensure consistency and flexibility, streamlining document management and distribution.

• Fixed Reports Documentation
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Summary Reports

Summary Reports in ActiveReportsJS help manage large data sets by condensing information into focused, easy-to-interpret views using grouping, sorting, and filtering. Advanced features like Pivot Tables and Charts enable dynamic data presentation, allowing users to reorganize and highlight key metrics.

Pivot Tables let users arrange rows, columns, and values to emphasize relevant data, while Charts provide visual clarity for spotting trends and outliers. Whether analyzing sales, customer demographics, or financial summaries, these tools make complex data more accessible and actionable, empowering decision-makers with valuable insights.

• Summary Reports Documentation
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Drill-Down Reports

Drill-Down Reports in ActiveReportsJS offer an interactive way to explore complex data by expanding sections to reveal detailed information without overwhelming the initial view. Users can engage with high-level summaries and drill into specific areas as needed, making it easier to analyze hierarchical or nested data.

This dynamic approach enhances user experience by keeping reports concise while allowing deeper exploration. As users drill down, they can uncover trends and correlations, leading to better insights and informed decision-making. Ideal for financial reports, sales analysis, and more, Drill-Down Reports provide a flexible, user-friendly solution for thorough data analysis.

• Drill-Down Reports Documentation
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Drill-Through Reports

Drill-Through Reports in ActiveReportsJS enhance interactivity by allowing users to navigate from high-level summaries to detailed data via clickable links. For example, users can click on a chart region in a sales report to view detailed data for that region in a subreport.

These reports use parameterized links to pass data, like region names or product IDs, enabling focused exploration without cluttering the main report. Users can easily switch between the main report and subreports, promoting deeper insights. ActiveReportsJS makes complex data navigation simple and engaging, empowering users to explore data dynamically.

• Drill-Through Reports Documentation
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Serverless Reporting

Integrate ActiveReportsJS into your front-end apps effortlessly with multiple installation options. Whether using NPM, hosting JavaScript files within your app, or leveraging CDN, ActiveReportsJS provides a seamless, server-free solution for modern web development.

NPM is ideal for projects already using package managers, allowing easy integration with your codebase by running npm install @grapecity/activereports. For quick prototyping or deployment, CDN-hosted versions offer instant access to the latest features without managing files or packages, optimizing performance and reducing server load.

For offline or controlled environments, app-hosted JavaScript provides full control over versioning and deployment. Regardless of the method, ActiveReportsJS enables full client-side reporting with zero server dependencies, ensuring fast performance and easy implementation.

• Getting Started Documentation

Embeddable Components

Integrating the JavaScript Report Viewer and Report Designer components into your application enables users to preview and modify reports in real time, creating a seamless reporting experience. The JavaScript Report Viewer provides an interactive interface for previewing, navigating, and exporting reports in various formats, essential for verifying accuracy before distribution.

With the JavaScript Report Designer, users can customize reports directly within the app, adjusting parameters, data fields, formatting, and styling without switching tools. This flexibility allows users to create or modify reports efficiently.

The integration of both components empowers users to adapt reports on the fly, streamlining workflows and minimizing the need for external tools. By embedding these features, your app offers an end-to-end solution, enhancing productivity and making report management intuitive and efficient.

• Report Viewer Documentation
• View Viewer Demo
• Report Designer Documentation
• View Designer Demo

Seamless Integration

To effortlessly integrate ActiveReportsJS into your web application, utilize official libraries for popular JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte. These libraries simplify the integration process, enabling powerful reporting functionality with minimal configuration.

For Angular, ActiveReportsJS offers directives and services that fit seamlessly into Angular’s architecture, making it easy to manage reporting components. Step-by-step documentation guides you through setting it up via NPM.

In React, the library allows for straightforward embedding of reporting components within JSX, utilizing React-specific hooks and props for data binding and event handling.

Vue users benefit from a library designed for reactivity, facilitating integration through Vue’s single-file components. Svelte developers can quickly embed report designers and viewers, leveraging Svelte’s efficient framework.

These libraries empower developers to enhance applications with dynamic, customizable reporting capabilities.

• ActiveReportsJS Documentation

Create Reports Programmatically

Leveraging the ActiveReportsJS API allows for high flexibility and customization when building custom report designers. This API provides complete control over the design process, enabling you to create tailored interfaces that meet users' specific needs. You can incorporate essential functionalities, such as drag-and-drop components, and advanced features like custom property panels and data source connections, ensuring seamless integration within your application.

The integration of TypeScript declarations simplifies development by enhancing code reliability and maintainability. With strong typing, developers benefit from accurate autocompletion and inline documentation, improving productivity and reducing runtime errors. This flexibility allows for deep customization across frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue, delivering a high-quality, tailored reporting experience.

In summary, utilizing the ActiveReportsJS API with TypeScript support results in a powerful, developer-friendly solution that aligns with users' unique workflows while maintaining the platform's robustness.

• ActiveReportsJS API Documentation