separate HorizontalBar component added, to remove optional 'type' parameter at Bar, which was ignored inside reactive mixins

src/BaseCharts/Bar.js

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export default Vue.extend({
       let chartOptions = mergeOptions(this.defaultOptions, options)
       this._chart = new Chart(
         this.$refs.canvas.getContext('2d'), {
-          type: type || 'bar',
+          type: 'bar',
           data: data,
           options: chartOptions
         }

src/BaseCharts/HorizontalBar.js

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import Vue from 'vue'
+import Chart from 'chart.js'
+import { mergeOptions } from '../helpers/options'
+
+export default Vue.extend({
+  render: function (createElement) {
+    return createElement(
+      'div',
+      [
+        createElement(
+          'canvas', {
+            attrs: {
+              id: this.chartId,
+              width: this.width,
+              height: this.height
+            },
+            ref: 'canvas'
+          }
+        )
+      ]
+    )
+  },
+
+  props: {
+    chartId: {
+      default: 'horizontalbar-chart',
+      type: String
+    },
+    width: {
+      default: 400,
+      type: Number
+    },
+    height: {
+      default: 400,
+      type: Number
+    }
+  },
+
+  data () {
+    return {
+      defaultOptions: {
+        scales: {
+          yAxes: [{
+            ticks: {
+              beginAtZero: true
+            },
+            gridLines: {
+              display: false
+            }
+          }],
+          xAxes: [ {
+            gridLines: {
+              display: false
+            },
+            categoryPercentage: 0.5,
+            barPercentage: 0.2
+          }]
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  },
+
+  methods: {
+    renderChart (data, options, type) {
+      let chartOptions = mergeOptions(this.defaultOptions, options)
+      this._chart = new Chart(
+        this.$refs.canvas.getContext('2d'), {
+          type: 'horizontalBar',
+          data: data,
+          options: chartOptions
+        }
+      )
+      this._chart.generateLegend()
+    }
+  },
+  beforeDestroy () {
+    this._chart.destroy()
+  }
+})

src/examples/HorizontalBarExample.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import HorizontalBarChart from '../BaseCharts/HorizontalBar'
+
+export default HorizontalBarChart.extend({
+  mounted () {
+    this.renderChart({
+      labels: ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'],
+      datasets: [
+        {
+          label: 'Data One',
+          backgroundColor: '#f87979',
+          data: [40, 20, 12, 39, 10, 40, 39, 80, 40, 20, 12, 11]
+        }
+      ]
+    }, {responsive: true, maintainAspectRatio: false})
+  }
+})

src/index.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import Bar from './BaseCharts/Bar'
+import HorizontalBar from './BaseCharts/HorizontalBar'
 import Doughnut from './BaseCharts/Doughnut'
 import Line from './BaseCharts/Line'
 import Pie from './BaseCharts/Pie'
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ import mixins from './mixins/index.js'
 
 const VueCharts = {
   Bar,
+  HorizontalBar,
   Doughnut,
   Line,
   Pie,
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ export default VueCharts
 export {
   VueCharts,
   Bar,
+  HorizontalBar,
   Doughnut,
   Line,
   Pie,

test/unit/specs/HorizontalBar.spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import Vue from 'vue'
+import HorizontalBarChart from 'src/examples/HorizontalBarExample'
+
+describe('HorizontalBarChart', () => {
+  let el
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    el = document.createElement('div')
+  })
+
+  it('should render a canvas', () => {
+    const vm = new Vue({
+      render: function (createElement) {
+        return createElement(
+          HorizontalBarChart
+        )
+      },
+      components: { HorizontalBarChart }
+    }).$mount(el)
+
+    expect(vm.$el.querySelector('#horizontalbar-chart')).not.to.be.an('undefined')
+    expect(vm.$el.querySelector('canvas')).not.to.be.an('undefined')
+    expect(vm.$el.querySelector('canvas')).not.to.be.an('null')
+    expect(vm.$el.querySelector('canvas')).to.exist
+  })
+
+  it('should change id based on prop', () => {
+    const vm = new Vue({
+      render: function (createElement) {
+        return createElement(
+          HorizontalBarChart, {
+            props: {
+              chartId: 'horizontalbarchartprop'
+            }
+          }
+        )
+      },
+      components: { HorizontalBarChart }
+    }).$mount(el)
+
+    expect(vm.$el.querySelector('#horizontalbarchartprop')).not.to.be.an('undefined')
+  })
+
+  it('should destroy chart instance', (done) => {
+    const vm = new Vue({
+      render: function (createElement) {
+        return createElement(
+          HorizontalBarChart
+        )
+      },
+      components: { HorizontalBarChart }
+    }).$mount(el)
+
+    expect(vm.$children[0]._chart.chart.ctx).not.to.be.null
+
+    vm.$destroy()
+
+    vm.$nextTick(() => {
+      vm.$forceUpdate()
+      expect(vm.$children[0]._chart.chart.ctx).to.be.null
+      done()
+    })
+  })
+})