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Highcharts vs CHARTIST.JS: What are the differences?
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; CHARTIST.JS: *Open source Charting JavaScript library *. It is an open source Charting JavaScript library which provide a solution to the problems faced by charting libraries. It’s lightweight, simple and flexible to integrate . You can Create responsive, scalable and good looking charts with it.
Highcharts and CHARTIST.JS can be categorized 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, CHARTIST.JS provides the following key features:
- Simple handling while using convention over configuration
- Fully responsive and DPI independent
- Fully built and customizable with Sass
Highcharts is an open source tool with 8.94K GitHub stars and 2.34K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Highcharts's open source repository on GitHub.
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
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.
Pros of Chartist.js
- Small size5
- SVG4
- Animations1
Pros of Highcharts
- Low learning curve and powerful34
- Multiple chart types such as pie, bar, line and others17
- Responsive charts13
- Handles everything you throw at it9
- Extremely easy-to-parse documentation8
- Built-in export chart as-is to image file5
- Easy to customize color scheme and palettes5
- Export on server side, can be used in email1
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Cons of Chartist.js
- Weak documentation2
Cons of Highcharts
- Expensive9
