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Highcharts vs Matplotlib: What are the differences?
Developers describe Highcharts 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. On the other hand, Matplotlib is detailed as "A plotting library for the Python programming language". It is a Python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. It can be used in Python scripts, the Python and IPython shells, the Jupyter notebook, web application servers, and four graphical user interface toolkits.
Highcharts and Matplotlib can be categorized as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Highcharts is an open source tool with 8.89K GitHub stars and 2.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Highcharts's open source repository on GitHub.
Webedia, WebbyLab, and Zumba are some of the popular companies that use Highcharts, whereas Matplotlib is used by Opportunity Network, King's Digital Lab, and Quezx.com. Highcharts has a broader approval, being mentioned in 252 company stacks & 237 developers stacks; compared to Matplotlib, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 19 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 Highcharts
- Low learning curve and powerful33
- Multiple chart types such as pie, bar, line and others16
- Responsive charts12
- Handles everything you throw at it8
- Extremely easy-to-parse documentation7
- 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
- Uu1
- It is nice0
Pros of Matplotlib
- The standard Swiss Army Knife of plotting10
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Cons of Highcharts
- Expensive8
Cons of Matplotlib
- Lots of code5
