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Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by mamcx »

A bit Offtopic: Somebody have used http://js.devexpress.com/WebDevelopment/? I between it and highcharts for a dashboard-type app for Desktop + IOS browser.

I have used DevExpress before and is a good company but never the JS products. Is less expensive and bundle a JS grid, that I need too.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by simonw »

Every page on that site returns a 200 status code, and the same content as the homepage.

This means that http://www.highcharts.com/license (linked to from GitHub) is currently failing silently - you get content, but it's not the licensing information.

Note that http://www.highcharts.com/licenseoneutahenuo returns the exact same content again.

404s are useful! Don't disable them.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by nilkn »

Bahamut wrote: post #8
jestar_jokin wrote: post #3

Unfortunately, this isn't free for commercial use, so perhaps something like Google Charts is more suitable (depending on your use case). There are plenty of alternatives out there.

d3 is probably the one that has gained the most buzz from developers as of late. From my experimentation/evaluation of various charting libraries, d3 is certainly the most powerful.

d3 is not really a charting library. It's a general data binding engine that happens to have exceptional SVG support. Entire classes are taught on d3 due to its generality.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by floatrock »

Bahamut wrote: post #8
jestar_jokin wrote: post #3

Unfortunately, this isn't free for commercial use, so perhaps something like Google Charts is more suitable (depending on your use case). There are plenty of alternatives out there.

d3 is probably the one that has gained the most buzz from developers as of late. From my experimentation/evaluation of various charting libraries, d3 is certainly the most powerful.

The difference between d3 and highcharts is like a paint brush vs. a coloring book. If you're davinci, you can make masterpieces with a paint brush. However, even davinci (probably) started off drawing little stick figures. A coloring book defines the basic shapes you want, you just need to fill in the colors and add your personal touch.

Highcharts is neat because it's a high-level api around charting. If you want to make charts, it's one of the most customizable and well-documented API's out there. If you want to build a custom visualization, highcharts offers a good amount of customizability, but sometimes you just gotta drop down into assembly.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by Ecio78 »

We used it in my previous companies and our developers were very happy about it. Previously we were using http://www.amcharts.com/ good product (but we switched because at that time amcharts was flash only - I think), but my dev colleagues told me that Highcharts was more powerful.

P.S. at that time (4-5 years ago) it was possible to use Amcharts for free in commercial app but with reduced features (for example you couldn't handle a click on the graph because in the free edition it would open their site) and showing a link in the bottom of the chart. It seems it follows the same rule now according to their download page, so consider it if you want a good free charting library (I used also amMap and it was ok)

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