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Ask HN: Your favorite open-source JavaScript Library for charts?

• midgetjones 10y ago
  I like http://c3js.org/ http://c3js.org/ - it's built on top of D3.
• superflit 10y ago
  The one I use is HighCharts [1] Very clean and very good. [1] - http://www.highcharts.com/ http://www.highcharts.com/
  • stadeschuldt 10y ago
    I love HighCharts and use it for my open-source project at http://solarpi.tafkas.net http://solarpi.tafkas.net If you have a commercial product you have to pay for the license though.
• dagw 10y ago
  http://plot.ly http://plot.ly does everything I've ever wanted and more with pretty good API. The fact that I can use the same API first for doing data exploration in python or R and then when publishing the results to the web is a nice added bonus.
• antman 10y ago
  Try the Github showcases that lists all the major ones https://github.com/showcases/data-visualization https://github.com/showcases/data-visualization
• roschdal 10y ago
  http://morrisjs.github.io/morris.js/ http://morrisjs.github.io/morris.js/
• andymurd 10y ago
  NVD3's pie chart[1] is quite straightforward, some of the other charts in the library need work though. [1] - http://nvd3.org/examples/pie.html http://nvd3.org/examples/pie.html
• bzalasky 10y ago
  After using several different libraries over the past few years, I've started using D3.js on its own. While it's more work than dropping something ready-made into an app, it's more flexible. If you have specific designs/requirements to work from, it may be easier to build the charts with D3 than trying to shoehorn a stock chart into matching the spec. Behaviors like linking chart interactions to independent components (or vice versa) become easier to implement as well. If you care less about flexibility, Chartist is a solid contender: https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/ https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/
  • bzalasky 10y ago
    These two videos from Scott Murray are a great intro to D3 if you haven't worked with it before: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/an-introduction-to/9781491906323/ https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/an-introducti... https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/intermediate-d3js/9781491926635/ https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/intermediate-...
• realtarget 10y ago
  Thanks for your recommendations. I'm currently taking a look at all the libraries and will test the functionality over the next days. Some of them are realy overweighted - especially the D3-based libs seem to be slower than the others. I'll keep you informed about my "test winner".