Why developers like D3.js

What is D3.js?

JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. Emphasises on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework

D3.js is a tool in the Charting Libraries category of a tech stack.

D3.js is an open source tool with 85.3K GitHub stars and 20.9K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to D3.js's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses D3.js?

Companies

525 companies use D3.js in their tech stacks, including Coursera, Repro, and Code School.

Developers

88 developers use D3.js.

D3.js Integrations

C3.js, Britecharts, Recharts, Plottable.js, and React D3 Library are some of the popular tools that integrate with D3.js. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with D3.js.

Why developers like D3.js?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use D3.js

Top Reasons

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Beautiful visualizations

Data-driven

Svg

Large set of examples

Data-driven documents

Visualization components

Backed by the new york times

Makes data interactive

Easy and beautiful

D3.js Reviews

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose D3.js in their tech stack.

Tim Abbott

Founder at Zulip · a month ago | 5 upvotes · 1.3K views

Zulip

D3.js

Plotly

We use Plotly (just their open source stuff) for Zulip's user-facing and admin-facing statistics graphs because it's a reasonably well-designed JavaScript graphing library.

If you've tried using D3.js, it's a pretty poor developer experience, and that translates to spending a bunch of time getting the graphs one wants even for things that are conceptually pretty basic. Plotly isn't amazing (it's decent), but it's way better than than D3 unless you have very specialized needs.

Jurriaan Persyn

CTO & Co-founder at Clarabridge · 2 years ago | 1 upvotes · 1.1K views

Clarabridge Engage

D3.js

Several of the visualisations in our Insights pages use D3.js as their engine. D3.js

Todd Schiller

Head of Engineering at MOKA Analytics · 6 months ago | 1 upvotes · 1K views

MOKA Analytics

D3.js

We use D3 for creating custom charts that aren't available in off-the-shelf libraries D3.js

Kent Steiner

2 years ago | 1 upvotes · 1K views

D3.js

Charts, charts, charts. Data visualizations are a great way to communicate information to people who need to know it, quickly and concisely. D3.js

Software Antelope

3 years ago | 1 upvotes · 1K views

D3.js

Creating online data visualizations to illustrate your potential or interact in new ways with your users. Including transistions, animations and graphs. D3.js

Tyler Harden

Software Engineer at datapile · 3 years ago | 1 upvotes · 1K views

datapile

D3.js

D3.js is an amazing library for doing visualizations, charts/graphs, etc. We are experimenting with it for metric visualizations, marketing graphs/charts, and basically anywhere we could use this amazing library. D3.js

D3.js Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to D3.js?

Highcharts

Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types.

Plotly

Plotly.js is the only open-source JavaScript library for data visualization in the sciences and engineering. Open-source interfaces to Plotly.js are available for Python, R, MATLAB, and React.

C3.js

c3 is a D3-based reusable chart library that enables deeper integration of charts into web applications.

Chart.js

Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.

amCharts

amCharts is an advanced charting library that will suit any data visualization need. Our charting solution include Column, Bar, Line, Area, Step, Step without risers, Smoothed line, Candlestick, OHLC, Pie/Donut, Radar/ Polar, XY/Scatter/Bubble, Bullet, Funnel/Pyramid charts as well as Gauges.

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