Highcharts vs React Chartkick: 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; React Chartkick: Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of React. Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of React
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Highcharts and React Chartkick 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, React Chartkick provides the following key features:
- Line charts
- Pie charts
- Column charts
Highcharts and React Chartkick are both open source tools. It seems that Highcharts with 8.79K GitHub stars and 2.32K forks on GitHub has more adoption than React Chartkick with 1.07K GitHub stars and 53 GitHub forks.