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Highcharts vs Chart.xkcd: 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; Chart.xkcd: xkcd styled chart library. It is a chart library plots “sketchy”, “cartoony” or “hand-drawn” styled charts. It’s easy to get started with it. All that’s required is the script included in your page along with a single node to render the chart.

Highcharts and Chart.xkcd 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, Chart.xkcd provides the following key features:

  • Easy to Use
  • Line Chart
  • Bar Chart

Highcharts and Chart.xkcd are both open source tools. Highcharts with 8.94K GitHub stars and 2.34K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Chart.xkcd with 2.99K GitHub stars and 50 GitHub forks.

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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 Chart.xkcd
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      Low learning curve and powerful
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      Multiple chart types such as pie, bar, line and others
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      Responsive charts
    • 9
      Handles everything you throw at it
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      Extremely easy-to-parse documentation
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      Built-in export chart as-is to image file
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      Easy to customize color scheme and palettes
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      Export on server side, can be used in email

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        Expensive

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      What is Chart.xkcd?

      It is a chart library plots “sketchy”, “cartoony” or “hand-drawn” styled charts. It’s easy to get started with it. All that’s required is the script included in your page along with a single <svg> node to render the chart.

      What is 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.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

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