Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#1

Post by mxmpawn » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:03 PM UTC

I'm building a Django app and I'd like to use a javascript library for the charts, is it the best way to put graphics in django aplications?. I need simple types of charts: pie and bar(with negatives).

I began to use jqplot but I'm having some problems with some options.

I'd like to find a library with pretty nice and colorful charts and compatible with the majority of the principal browsers(ie,firefox,chrome).

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#2

Post by briandoll » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:22 PM UTC

At New Relic, we use HighCharts (http://highcharts.com/). We constantly get questions from our customers about which library we use, because they like the way they look and function. Highly recommended.

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#3

Post by qbproger » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:26 PM UTC

Flot is worth a shot. There may be a python library to generate is server side. When I looked into it, I kept going back and forth between javascript charts vs images. I ended up going with images because I didn't really need dynamic charts. There were also features missing from many. IIRC, Flot couldn't add a title to the x/y axis at the time I was looking at it.

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#4

Post by ryanc » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:34 PM UTC

I was working on a Django app a few months ago that required a lot of chart features. I was impressed with how easy sparklines is to use but for some larger charts I used flot.

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#5

Post by mxmpawn » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:35 PM UTC

briandoll wrote: post #2

At New Relic, we use HighCharts ( http://highcharts.com/ ). We constantly get questions from our customers about which library we use, because they like the way they look and function. Highly recommended.

That's a great library but I'll have to pay u$s360 if I want to use it. In my country it'll be ~u$s1300.

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#6

Post by mxmpawn » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

qbproger wrote: post #3

Flot is worth a shot. There may be a python library to generate is server side. When I looked into it, I kept going back and forth between javascript charts vs images. I ended up going with images because I didn't really need dynamic charts. There were also features missing from many. IIRC, Flot couldn't add a title to the x/y axis at the time I was looking at it.

Thanks for your suggestion, I had previously checked Flot but didn't use it because I didn't see a pie chart in the examples. Now I looked again and the pie chart is in the trunk version.

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#7

Post by dochtman » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

We use Flot successfully, but have also looked at jqplot.

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#8

Post by rexreed » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:47 PM UTC

We use the Google Charts API - it's free and very good. But I haven't seen many others comment about it. Is there a problem with using that?

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#9

Post by cnlwsu » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:48 PM UTC

Google's visualization apis are amazing, cant recommend it enough. The chart ones are nice but you then also have to wrap it yourself to generate the GET request appropriately to the data.

Re: Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

#10

Post by thibaut_barrere » Fri, Oct 29, 2010, 3:52 PM UTC