AG Charts is in a simple/powerful sweet spot.
Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
#12Whichever one looks best with the rest of your dashboard :)
unless you specifically need to handle >100(0) data points, then only uplot or charts js will be performant (for free)
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#13https://www.chartjs.org/
It's pretty easy to configure and understand. It's the 80/20 principal of charts, it is 80% of D3 functionality for 20% the effort.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
#14what's the closest you can get to Grafana like looking?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
#15I like Vega-Lite: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
It’s built by folks from the same lab as D3, but designed as “a higher-level visual specification language on top of D3” [https://vega.github.io/vega/about/vega-and-d3/]
My favorite way to prototype a dashboard is to use Streamlit to lay things out and serve it and then use Altair [https://altair-viz.github.io/] to generate the Vega-Lite plots in Python. Then if you need to move to something besides Python to productionize, you can produce the same Vega-Lite definitions using the framework of your choice.
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#16Re: Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
#17If print friendly reports are a requirement, I'd go with QuickChart (https://quickchart.io.)
Static charts similar to chart.js, but without all the javascript. I've found static charts are much easier to work with once print CSS layout becomes a requirement.
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#19I've messed with a few. I really like Apache Echarts if you're looking for an all-in-one-can-do-anything solution with a good license. The downsides are that the docs can sometimes be a little obtuse. There are adapters for almost every front-end at this point. Nivo is a much simpler system that is styled by default and works much easier with React. If you're not doing complicated charts, it's my goto for the "I just…
Re: Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
#20Not powerful but extremely simple, especially if you want to avoid JavaScript at all cost: