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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.
Will you be kind enough to list some examples please. I am working on some of this stuff.
I like Highcharts a lot and we are paying for and using it, but be careful with the licensing. Chances are you'll need to pay $390 for it unless you're using it on a single domain, in which case it's $90. And that's for a single developer. 5 developers and multiple domains = $1500 without support, and there's nothing in between. And if you don't get the license and support you don't get hotfixes and updates, which se…
"For use on a simple webpage that is not considered a web application. A web application is a website that has customer specific data or charges for its use. This requires a Developer license."
http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts/highcharts-single-websit...
and plenty more
It's too expensive and there are plenty of free alternatives like http://c3js.org/ http://www.chartjs.org/ http://nvd3.org/ and plenty more
In western countries you could get at most 2-3 man days for that money, I highly doubt that even the best coder could implement Highcharts in 3 days and provide support for it afterwards.
If all you want is one or two simple charts then I agree, it is a waste of money to buy something like Highcharts, but if you really need most of what it has to offer then it is a good investment.
I have integrated Highcharts into a commercial project and it was a success.
NVd3 ( http://nvd3.org/ ) is the good opensource alternative without the problem of highcharts licensing https://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html
Took quite some work but I don't want anything else now. Just set some data attributes and I can create pie's, line charts, and bars all on the fly!
It almost never failed me to customize it, editability is good and API doc extensive.
It's too expensive and there are plenty of free alternatives like http://c3js.org/ http://www.chartjs.org/ http://nvd3.org/ and plenty more
If you are building a commercial product and 590$ is too expensive, I feel sorry for you. In western countries you could get at most 2-3 man days for that money, I highly doubt that even the best coder could implement Highcharts in 3 days and provide support for it afterwards. If all you want is one or two simple charts then I agree, it is a waste of money to buy something like Highcharts, but if you really need most…
Having to pick between (A) sneaking around behind your vendor's back to violate their licensing terms by having more developers work on it than you paid for and (trivially) concealing that from them, (B) paying $1,500 instead of $590 (!) just so more people can legally work on it, and not even getting support, or (C) micromanaging your team such that literally only one human being can actually work on that part of the code base...
...makes for a real bad customer experience, which is surely to the detriment of sales.