Documentation about barThickness is incomplete and unclear

[jedrekdomanski]

I have spent around 2 hours reading your documentation looking for a way to configure barThickness option in a Bar chart but I don't see it. You say that "The bar chart defines the following configuration options. These options are merged with the global chart configuration options, Chart.defaults.global, to form the options passed to the chart. so I tried adding this option to the global option attribute, like so:

options: {
  barThickness: 0.5
}

But this doesn't work.
Why is it that I have to end up on StackOverflow looking for an answer to similar question somebody might have asked before? And it turns out that yes, somebody has already asked this question and somebody answered that it has to be placed inside scales -> xAxes property, like so:

options = {
    scales: {
        xAxes: [{
            barThickness : 73
        }]
    }
}

Where in the docs do you specify this? Nowhere does ti say that it needs to be placed inside scales -> xAxes. Could you, please, update your documentation? I find it very frustrating to work with it and very unclear. Thank you.

[benmccann]

Pull requests are welcome if you'd like to update the docs so that others don't run into the same issue

[jedrekdomanski]

Sure. Do I add that to README for BarChart? I am asking because I am not sure how GitBook works. Will it pick the change automatically?

[benmccann]

I have a pending PR to migrate from gitbook to vuepress #5847. After it's submitted I know you'll be able to see the docs rendered on your local machine. You may be able to do that now as well, but I don't know gitbook as well

Anyway, it looks like the page you were referring to is here: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/blob/master/docs/charts/bar.md

[jedrekdomanski]

One second. I am on it. śr., 21 lis 2018 o 18:35 Ben McCann <notifications@github.com> napisał(a):

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I have a pending PR to migrate from gitbook to vuepress #5847 <#5847>. After it's submitted I know you'll be able to see the docs rendered on your local machine. You may be able to do that now as well, but I don't know gitbook as well Anyway, it looks like the page you were referring to is here: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/blob/master/docs/charts/bar.md — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5853 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFo1ib4R_eqBbzXk-JnTua_17LnkFuESks5uxY7LgaJpZM4YsGFa> .

[jedrekdomanski]

Hi, PR: #5854 śr., 21 lis 2018 o 18:47 Jędrek Domański <jedrek.domanski@gmail.com> napisał(a):

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One second. I am on it. śr., 21 lis 2018 o 18:35 Ben McCann ***@***.***> napisał(a): > I have a pending PR to migrate from gitbook to vuepress #5847 > <#5847>. After it's submitted I > know you'll be able to see the docs rendered on your local machine. You may > be able to do that now as well, but I don't know gitbook as well > > Anyway, it looks like the page you were referring to is here: > https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/blob/master/docs/charts/bar.md > > — > You are receiving this because you authored the thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#5853 (comment)>, > or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFo1ib4R_eqBbzXk-JnTua_17LnkFuESks5uxY7LgaJpZM4YsGFa> > . >