@scompliance,
You can get the axis properties like minimum, maximum, etc. in useEffect hook as show in the code-snippet below.
useEffect(() => {
  chart.axisX[0].addTo('stripLines', {
    startValue: chart.axisX[0].get('minimum'),
    endValue: chart.axisX[0].get('maximum'),
    color: 'rgba(221, 160, 221, 0.1)',
  });
}, []);
You can add stripline as plotarea background once you have access to axis range properties. Please take a look at this Stackblitz for an example of the same.

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Vishwas R
Team CanvasJS