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Chart.js

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Followers711

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Chart.js vs Plotly: What are the differences?

Chart.js: Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers. Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions; Plotly: The Web's fastest growing charting libraries. Plotly.js is the only open-source JavaScript library for data visualization in the sciences and engineering. Open-source interfaces to Plotly.js are available for Python, R, MATLAB, and React.

Chart.js and Plotly can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by Chart.js are:

animated
HTML5 based
Responsive

On the other hand, Plotly provides the following key features:

Feature parity with MATLAB/matplotlib graphing
Online chart editor
Fully interactive (hover, zoom, pan)

Chart.js and Plotly are both open source tools. It seems that Chart.js with 44.3K GitHub stars and 9.71K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Plotly with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.21K GitHub forks.

stage.gg, CROPTI, and Boltzap are some of the popular companies that use Chart.js, whereas Plotly is used by Wellzesta, Algo Edge Technologies, and ADEXT. Chart.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to Plotly, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

Advice on Chart.js and Plotly.js

Shaik Abdullah

Feb 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 175.1K views

Needs advice

Highcharts

Chart.js

and

Recharts

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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Darren Adams

Senior Developer at Burning Glass Technologies · Aug 5, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 106.8K views

Recommends

Highcharts

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.js

Pros of Plotly.js

16
Offers all types of charts
12
Interactive Charts
10
It's totally free

16
Bindings to popular languages like Python, Node, R, etc
10
Integrated zoom and filter-out tools in charts and maps
9
Great support for complex and multiple axes
8
Powerful out-of-the-box featureset
6
Beautiful visualizations
4
Active user base
4
Impressive support for webgl 3D charts
3
Charts are easy to share with a cloud account
3
Webgl chart types are extremely performant
2
Publication quality image export
2
Interactive charts
2
Easy to use online editor for creating plotly.js charts

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Cons of Chart.js

Cons of Plotly.js

12
Slow rendering
2
Bitmap quality export
1
Low quality zoom plugin
0
It's totally free

17
Terrible document

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What is Chart.js?

Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.

What is Plotly.js?

It is a standalone Javascript data visualization library, and it also powers the Python and R modules named plotly in those respective ecosystems (referred to as Plotly.py and Plotly.R). It can be used to produce dozens of chart types and visualizations, including statistical charts, 3D graphs, scientific charts, SVG and tile maps, financial charts and more.

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What are some alternatives to Chart.js and Plotly.js?

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.

D3.js

It is a 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.

ApexCharts

A modern JavaScript charting library to build interactive charts and visualizations with simple API.

Google Charts

It is an interactive Web service that creates graphical charts from user-supplied information. The user supplies data and a formatting specification expressed in JavaScript embedded in a Web page; in response the service sends an image of the chart.

Recharts

Quickly build your charts with decoupled, reusable React components. Built on top of SVG elements with a lightweight dependency on D3 submodules.

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Chart.js vs Plotly.js

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