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Plotly vs React Chartkick: What are the differences?
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; React Chartkick: Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of React. Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of React
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Plotly and React Chartkick can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Plotly are:
- Feature parity with MATLAB/matplotlib graphing
- Online chart editor
- Fully interactive (hover, zoom, pan)
On the other hand, React Chartkick provides the following key features:
- Line charts
- Pie charts
- Column charts
Plotly and React Chartkick are both open source tools. Plotly with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Chartkick with 1.07K GitHub stars and 53 GitHub forks.
Pros of Plotly.js
- Bindings to popular languages like Python, Node, R, etc14
- Integrated zoom and filter-out tools in charts and maps10
- Great support for complex and multiple axes9
- Powerful out-of-the-box featureset8
- Beautiful visualizations6
- Active user base4
- Webgl chart types are extremely performant3
- Impressive support for webgl 3D charts3
- Charts are easy to share with a cloud account3
- Interactive charts2
- Publication quality image export2
- Easy to use online editor for creating plotly.js charts2
Pros of React Chartkick
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Cons of Plotly.js
- Terrible document15