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Plotly vs Recharts: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Recharts? Redefined chart library built with React and D3. Quickly build your charts with decoupled, reusable React components. Built on top of SVG elements with a lightweight dependency on D3 submodules.

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

Plotly and Recharts are both open source tools. Recharts with 11.9K GitHub stars and 921 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Plotly with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.21K GitHub forks.

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Shaik Abdullah

Feb 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 85.8K views

Needs advice

Recharts

Chart.js

and

Highcharts

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 · 17.4K views

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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 Plotly.js

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

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Very intuitive API
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Built for React, from scratch
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Responsive
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Composable chart elements
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MIT license

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Cons of Plotly.js

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Terrible document

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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.

What is 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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What are some alternatives to Plotly.js and Recharts?

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.

Bokeh

Bokeh is an interactive visualization library for modern web browsers. It provides elegant, concise construction of versatile graphics, and affords high-performance interactivity over large or streaming datasets.

Marvel

A super simple tool that turns any image (including PSDs) or sketch into interactive prototypes for any device. Powered by Dropbox.

Matplotlib

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.

Storyline

Storyline makes it easy to create, test & publish Alexa skills in minutes with a visual interface and pre-built templates.

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