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The reason you need to assign ApexCharts to window.ApexCharts is because the library is not being exported as a global variable by default. By assigning it to window.ApexCharts, you are making it accessible globally throughout your application.

Here's an example of how you can import and use ApexCharts in your app.js file:

import ApexCharts from 'apexcharts';

// Create a new chart instance
const chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector("#chart"), options);

// Render the chart
chart.render();

However, if you want to access ApexCharts globally without assigning it to window.ApexCharts, you can use a module bundler like Webpack or Rollup to create a global variable for it. Here's an example using Webpack:

1. Install the expose-loader package:

npm install expose-loader --save-dev

1. Update your webpack.config.js file to include the expose-loader:

module.exports = {
  // ...
  module: {
    rules: [
      // ...
      {
        test: require.resolve('apexcharts'),
        use: [{
          loader: 'expose-loader',
          options: 'ApexCharts'
        }]
      }
    ]
  }
};

1. Now you can import and use ApexCharts globally without assigning it to window.ApexCharts:

import 'apexcharts';

// Create a new chart instance
const chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector("#chart"), options);

// Render the chart
chart.render();

Remember to adjust the #chart selector to match the ID of the element where you want to render the chart.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.