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Recharts vs amCharts: What are the differences?

Introduction

Recharts and amCharts are both popular charting libraries used for data visualization on websites. While they serve the same purpose, there are some key differences between them. In the following sections, we will explore these differences in detail.

  1. API and Documentation: Recharts has a simple and easy-to-use API with comprehensive documentation, making it beginner-friendly. On the other hand, amCharts provides a more extensive and feature-rich API, allowing for greater customization and flexibility. The documentation for amCharts is also well-maintained and provides a wide range of examples and tutorials.

  2. Chart Types: Recharts primarily focuses on providing a set of basic chart types, including line charts, bar charts, and pie charts. It also supports customizing these charts with various options. In contrast, amCharts offers a larger variety of chart types out of the box, including more advanced ones like radar charts, funnel charts, and candlestick charts. This makes amCharts a better choice when dealing with complex data visualizations.

  3. Responsive Design: Recharts has built-in support for responsive design, allowing the charts to automatically adjust their size and layout based on the container they are rendered in. amCharts also provides responsive capabilities, but it requires manual configuration and more code implementation to achieve the desired responsiveness.

  4. Data Handling: Recharts simplifies the handling of data by providing a straightforward and intuitive approach. It automatically calculates and formats the necessary data based on the input, reducing the need for manual data manipulation. amCharts, on the other hand, offers more advanced data manipulation capabilities. It allows for extensive data transformations and aggregations, making it suitable for scenarios where complex data manipulation is required.

  5. Animations and Interactions: Recharts offers basic animations and interactions out of the box, such as animated transitions between data updates and hover effects on data points. amCharts provides more advanced animation and interaction options, including smooth zooming and panning, drill-down capabilities, and interactive legends. This makes amCharts a better choice for creating visually engaging and interactive chart experiences.

  6. Compatibility and Browser Support: Recharts is built on top of React and is best suited for React applications. It may not work seamlessly with other frameworks or vanilla JavaScript projects. amCharts, on the other hand, provides support for multiple frameworks, including React, Angular, and Vue, as well as vanilla JavaScript. It also offers broader browser support, including older versions of Internet Explorer.

In summary, Recharts is a beginner-friendly and lightweight option for basic charting needs, with good documentation and responsive design support. On the other hand, amCharts provides a more feature-rich and versatile solution, offering a wider range of chart types, advanced customization capabilities, and interactive features.

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I have used highcharts and it is pretty awesome for my previous project. now as I am about to start my new project I want to use other charting libraries such as recharts, chart js, Nivo, d3 js.... my upcoming project might use react js as front end and laravel as a backend technology. the project would be of hotel management type. please suggest me the best charts to use

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I've used Highcharts with both Angular Js Reactive applications (render as ReactJs) and also a bit of D3. Personally I found Highcharts to be the easiest to use but, with still quite a good level of customisability if you need it. graphs and charts then give D3 a try.

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Pros of amCharts
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    Mock-up tools
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    Each element can be Customized
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    Very intuitive API
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    Built for React, from scratch
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    Responsive
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    Composable chart elements
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    Easy to use
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    MIT license

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Cons of amCharts
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    Amcharts upgrade often need to rewrite all code
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    Not considered time series charts

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What is 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.

What is Recharts?

Quickly build your charts with decoupled, reusable React components. Built on top of SVG elements with a lightweight dependency on D3 submodules.

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What are some alternatives to amCharts and Recharts?
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.
D3.js
It is a 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.
Google Charts
It is an interactive Web service that creates graphical charts from user-supplied information. The user supplies data and a formatting specification expressed in JavaScript embedded in a Web page; in response the service sends an image of the chart.
FusionCharts
It is the most comprehensive JavaScript charting library, with over 100+ charts and 2000+ maps. Integrated with all popular JavaScript frameworks and server-side programming languages. Create interactive JavaScript charts for your web and enterprise applications.
Plotly.js
It is a standalone Javascript data visualization library, and it also powers the Python and R modules named plotly in those respective ecosystems (referred to as Plotly.py and Plotly.R). It can be used to produce dozens of chart types and visualizations, including statistical charts, 3D graphs, scientific charts, SVG and tile maps, financial charts and more.
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