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  5. Chart.js vs UglifyJS

Chart.js vs UglifyJS

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Overview

UglifyJS
UglifyJS
Stacks776
Followers40
Votes0
GitHub Stars13.4K
Forks1.2K
Chart.js
Chart.js
Stacks2.0K
Followers786
Votes44
GitHub Stars66.7K
Forks12.0K

Chart.js vs UglifyJS: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is UglifyJS? JavaScript parser / mangler / compressor / beautifier library for NodeJS. This package implements a general-purpose JavaScript parser/compressor/beautifier toolkit. It is developed on NodeJS, but it should work on any JavaScript platform supporting the CommonJS module system (and if your platform of choice doesn’t support CommonJS, you can easily implement it, or discard the exports.* lines from UglifyJS sources).

Chart.js and UglifyJS are primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" and "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools respectively.

Chart.js and UglifyJS are both open source tools. Chart.js with 44.3K GitHub stars and 9.71K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than UglifyJS with 8.12K GitHub stars and 761 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Chart.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to UglifyJS, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.

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Advice on UglifyJS, Chart.js

Shaik
Shaik

Feb 18, 2020

Needs advice

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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Sudhan
Sudhan

Dec 23, 2019

Needs advice

I'm developing angular 8 application, I need to create a dynamic, custom charts based on the data, Charts options will be configured with a user input form. at any time users can edit and modify the chart options. even I dont know how many charts I have to create everything is dynamic. ( based on the user configuration chart counts will vary ). I need some suggestions on which chart will give these kinds of flexible options.

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Detailed Comparison

UglifyJS
UglifyJS
Chart.js
Chart.js

This package implements a general-purpose JavaScript parser/compressor/beautifier toolkit. It is developed on NodeJS, but it should work on any JavaScript platform supporting the CommonJS module system (and if your platform of choice doesn’t support CommonJS, you can easily implement it, or discard the exports.* lines from UglifyJS sources).

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

Parser; Code generator; Compressor; Scope analyzer
animated;HTML5 based;Responsive;Modular;Bar;Doughnut;Radar;Line;Polar Area;Interactive
Statistics
GitHub Stars
13.4K
GitHub Stars
66.7K
GitHub Forks
1.2K
GitHub Forks
12.0K
Stacks
776
Stacks
2.0K
Followers
40
Followers
786
Votes
0
Votes
44
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 0
    Great for javascript minification
Pros
  • 19
    Offers all types of charts
  • 14
    Interactive Charts
  • 10
    It's totally free
Cons
  • 12
    Slow rendering
  • 2
    Bitmap quality export
  • 1
    Low quality zoom plugin
  • 0
    It's totally free
Integrations
JavaScript
JavaScript
React
React
AngularJS
AngularJS

What are some alternatives to UglifyJS, Chart.js?

D3.js

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.

Underscore

Underscore

A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

Deno

Deno

It is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio.

Highcharts

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.

Plotly.js

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.

Recharts

Recharts

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

ECharts

ECharts

It is an open source visualization library implemented in JavaScript, runs smoothly on PCs and mobile devices, and is compatible with most current browsers.

ZingChart

ZingChart

The most feature-rich, fully customizable JavaScript charting library available used by start-ups and the Fortune 100 alike.

amCharts

amCharts

amCharts is an advanced charting library that will suit any data visualization need. Our charting solution include Column, Bar, Line, Area, Step, Step without risers, Smoothed line, Candlestick, OHLC, Pie/Donut, Radar/ Polar, XY/Scatter/Bubble, Bullet, Funnel/Pyramid charts as well as Gauges.

CanvasJS

CanvasJS

Lightweight, Beautiful & Responsive Charts that make your dashboards fly even with millions of data points! Self-Hosted, Secure & Scalable charts that render across devices.

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