How is this news?
Its JavaScript. Automatically makes it news here. (Awaits the down votes, doesn't expect any explanation of why it is news).
Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
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Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#32Unfortunately, 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.
Google Charts is nice but its major problem is that the data has to be sent to Google so it renders your chart if I get it well. But yes, there are plenty of alternatives. Some are not updated anymore but can still be useful according to your use cases.
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#33If you are working on a commercial product that you have to support its very good value for money.
Saved us all time and effort and allowed us to focus on building other stuff, without worrying about IE8 support. This is something which the other free alternatives, generally, don't do very well.
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#34It's too expensive and there are plenty of free alternatives like http://c3js.org/ http://www.chartjs.org/ http://nvd3.org/ and plenty more
We (quite successfully) use flot http://www.flotcharts.org/ after I looked at highcharts' license and their "solution" for doing server-side rendering (some dodgy php).
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#35It'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…
As a reference, I was able to move away from Highcharts and into one OOS library (rickshaw) in 2 man-days; I didn't have to reimplement it from scratch, I just had to find another lib.
To be fair, our charting requirements where not very complex.
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#36Unfortunately, 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.
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#37How is this news?
It's not new but I didn't know it was on Github. Perhaps that is the news?
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#38Highchart has been so good for our work we HAD to pay for it. We've looked at almost every single charting library (mostly open source) but in the end, the power & flexibility of Highcharts coud not be beaten. Another awesome thing is their support. Ask a question on their forum or SO, then you'll most likely get an answer with a working JSFiddle example either from the community or the developers of Highcharts. This…
+1 to this. I use Highcharts in my product and have saved much more work than their licensing fee cost me.
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#39I am a developer and i approve of this message.
This is hands down the best graph money can buy..
in a half-day test our webapplication suddenly was top-knotch, we immediately payed them a licence.. it saved us over a week of workhours and it wouldn't even be near half that good!
The configuration via the JS array is simple but extremely versatile, and the (interactive) zoomable time-series graphs are my favorite. Another great thing is that it supports image exports by our local (not always internet connected) webapplication server.
Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The pricing policy is more obnoxious than the price itself. $390 (or $590 for "maintenance and support") gets you the ability for one single developer to do any kind of work with it. The next tier is $1,500 (or $2,250 for "maintenance and support") and gets you the ability for up to 5 developers to do any kind of work with it. Having to pick between (A) sneaking around behind your vendor's back to violate their licen…
As a freelancer, I disagree that the pricing is obnoxious, it seems like a fairly typical business model for programming components. I view the 1 developer licenses as more of a discounted version for one-man shops like myself.