How to create an animated SVG circular progress component in React?

Thi Tran
TinySo
Published in
5 min readSep 10, 2021

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Today I’ll be helping you to step by step create an animated SVG circular progress component (a.k.a the ring progress) from scratch. If you are not using React, you can also apply it in a similar way. Here is the checklist:

  1. Understand the DOM layers & properties
  2. Create the circular background
  3. Create the circular progress
  4. Add label
  5. Add animation to the circular progress

Let’s get started!

Step 1: Understand the DOM layers & properties

Before jumping into the code, we need to understand the layers' structure and how it works. I know this part is a bit boring to you but it’s a thinking process which helps you to solve the other problems similarly.

Explain:

  • Circular background: An SVG circle with a grey stroke color
  • Circular progress: An SVG circle with the same radius, same stroke width as the Circular background but having the green stroke color , a rounded strokeLineCap and partial

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Thi Tran
TinySo
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