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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.
Pros of Plotly.js
Pros of Recharts
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 Recharts
- Very intuitive API5
- Responsive3
- Built for React, from scratch2
- Composable chart elements2
- MIT license1
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Cons of Plotly.js
Cons of Recharts
Cons of Plotly.js
- Terrible document15
Cons of Recharts
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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.
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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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