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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
- 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
- Terrible document15