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ApexCharts vs Plotly: What are the differences?
Developers describe ApexCharts as "๐ Interactive SVG Charts for React and Vue.js". A modern JavaScript charting library to build interactive charts and visualizations with simple API. On the other hand, Plotly is detailed as "The Web's fastest growing charting libraries". 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.
ApexCharts and Plotly can be categorized as "Charting Libraries" tools.
ApexCharts and Plotly are both open source tools. Plotly with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than ApexCharts with 6.57K GitHub stars and 295 GitHub forks.
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Pros of Plotly.js
Pros of ApexCharts
- Interactive charts3
- Graphs renders in SVG3
- Open source with MIT license3
- Provides zooming capabilities3
- Multiple chart types such as pie, bar, line and others1
Pros of Plotly.js
- Bindings to popular languages like Python, Node, R, etc16
- Integrated zoom and filter-out tools in charts and maps10
- Great support for complex and multiple axes9
- Powerful out-of-the-box featureset8
- Beautiful visualizations6
- Active user base4
- Impressive support for webgl 3D charts4
- Webgl chart types are extremely performant3
- Charts are easy to share with a cloud account3
- Publication quality image export2
- Easy to use online editor for creating plotly.js charts2
- Interactive charts2
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Cons of ApexCharts
Cons of Plotly.js
Cons of ApexCharts
- Slow rendering4
Cons of Plotly.js
- Terrible document16
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What is ApexCharts?
A modern JavaScript charting library to build interactive charts and visualizations with simple API.
What is 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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What are some alternatives to ApexCharts and Plotly.js?
ggplot2
It is a general scheme for data visualization which breaks up graphs into semantic components such as scales and layers.
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.
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.
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.