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

7 points by realtarget 10 years ago | 10 comments

Which ist your favorite open source JS library for chart generation?

Basic requirements:

- Mouseover to show details/values

- Possibility to link parts of a pie chart to a "category" page for deeper statistics

realtarget 9 years 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".

dagw 10 years ago |

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.

bzalasky 10 years 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/

bzalasky 10 years 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-introducti...

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/intermediate-...

antman 10 years ago |

Try the Github showcases that lists all the major ones https://github.com/showcases/data-visualization

superflit 10 years ago |

The one I use is HighCharts [1]

Very clean and very good.

[1] - http://www.highcharts.com/

stadeschuldt 10 years ago | |

I love HighCharts and use it for my open-source project at http://solarpi.tafkas.net

If you have a commercial product you have to pay for the license though.

andymurd 10 years 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

roschdal 10 years ago |

http://morrisjs.github.io/morris.js/

midgetjones 10 years ago |

I like http://c3js.org/ - it's built on top of D3.