how to import highcharts with webpack and babel

2022 Update Highcharts now have an official wrapper for React - https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts-react

There is a NPM called commonjs-highcharts that solves it. Just run npm i commonjs-highcharts and import it:

import highcharts from "commonjs-highcharts"

Worked for me.

This is how I solved it, using Webpack v4.16.5 and Highcharts v5.0.11.

webpack.config

module: {
  rules: [
    {
      test: /\.js$/,
      exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
      use: [{
        loader: 'babel-loader'
      }]
    },
    {
      test: /highcharts.*/,
      loader: 'imports-loader?window=>global&window.jQuery=>$'
    }
    // ...
  ],
  alias: {
    jquery: 'jquery/jquery'
    // ...
  }
},
externals: {
  jQuery: 'jQuery'
},
plugins: [
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery',
    'window.jQuery': 'jquery',
    'window.$': 'jquery',
    Highcharts: 'highcharts/highcharts'
    // ...
  })
]

main.js 1st option

import addMore from 'highcharts/highcharts-more'
import addExporting from 'highcharts/modules/exporting'
import addOfflineExporting from 'highcharts/modules/offline-exporting'
import addSolidGauge from 'highcharts/modules/solid-gauge'
import addDrilldown from 'highcharts/modules/drilldown'
import addTreemap from 'highcharts/modules/treemap'
import addFunnel from 'highcharts/modules/funnel'

addMore(Highcharts)
addExporting(Highcharts)
addOfflineExporting(Highcharts)
addSolidGauge(Highcharts)
addDrilldown(Highcharts)
addTreemap(Highcharts)
addFunnel(Highcharts)

main.js 2nd option:

require('highcharts/highcharts-more')(Highcharts)
require('highcharts/modules/exporting')(Highcharts)
require('highcharts/modules/offline-exporting')(Highcharts)
require('highcharts/modules/solid-gauge')(Highcharts)
require('highcharts/modules/drilldown')(Highcharts)
require('highcharts/modules/treemap')(Highcharts)
require('highcharts/modules/funnel')(Highcharts)

This way, it's both $(..).highcharts() and Highcharts.chart() usable.

Hope this helps!

Try this:

npm install highcharts

The issue I faced with this approach is using other modules in highcharts, such as highcharts-more, map, etc., To overcome this I imported highcharts and the other required modules like this:

import highcharts from 'highcharts';
import highchartsMore from 'highcharts-more';
highchartsMore(highcharts);

Try doing an npm install highcharts-release. Then in your JavaScript file do import Highcharts from 'highcharts-release/highcharts';. There may be a better way, but that worked for me.