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D3.js vs Highcharts: What are the differences?
Developers describe D3.js as "A JavaScript visualization library for HTML and SVG". 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. On the other hand, Highcharts is detailed as "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.
D3.js and Highcharts can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
"Beautiful visualizations" is the top reason why over 168 developers like D3.js, while over 26 developers mention "Low learning curve and powerful" as the leading cause for choosing Highcharts.
D3.js and Highcharts are both open source tools. It seems that D3.js with 85.8K GitHub stars and 21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Highcharts with 8.79K GitHub stars and 2.32K GitHub forks.
Square, Coinbase, and New Relic are some of the popular companies that use D3.js, whereas Highcharts is used by Klout, Treehouse, and Webedia. D3.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 531 company stacks & 91 developers stacks; compared to Highcharts, which is listed in 212 company stacks and 40 developer stacks.
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 D3.js
- Beautiful visualizations192
- Svg101
- Data-driven91
- Large set of examples80
- Data-driven documents60
- Visualization components23
- Transitions20
- Dynamic properties18
- Plugins16
- Transformation11
- Makes data interactive7
- Components4
- Enter and Exit4
- Exhaustive3
- Backed by the new york times3
- Open Source3
- Easy and beautiful2
- Awesome Community Support1
- Simple elegance1
- Templates, force template1
- Angular 41
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
- Easy to customize color scheme and palettes5
- Built-in export chart as-is to image file4
- Export on server side, can be used in email1
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Cons of D3.js
- Beginners cant understand at all10
- Complex syntax5
Cons of Highcharts
- Expensive9
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