Highcharts vs JSCharting: What are the differences?
What is Highcharts? A charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. 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.
What is JSCharting? JavaScript charts for developers. It is a JavaScript chart library for visualizing your data across all devices and platforms. Every JSCharting license includes the full suite of 150+ advanced chart types plus Gantt charts, JavaScript Org Charts, interactive stock and finance charts, seamless grid and calendar charts, JavaScript maps, and micro charts all for no additional charge. It has all the features you need and many you don't yet know you want.
Highcharts and JSCharting can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Highcharts are:
- It works in all modern mobile and desktop browsers including the iPhone/iPad and Internet Explorer from version 6
- Free for non-commercial
- One of the key features of Highcharts is that under any of the licenses, free or not, you are allowed to download the source code and make your own edits
On the other hand, JSCharting provides the following key features:
- Gantt, org, calendar, and more—all in one
- Maps with all countries/provinces built-in
- Integrated data grid control
Highcharts is an open source tool with 9.21K GitHub stars and 2.43K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Highcharts's open source repository on GitHub.