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Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#41

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

Chart.js is my current favourite - still doesn't have all the same features as Highcharts but usually sufficient for my needs.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#42

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

Adding to the list, Contour is a recent open source library that is easy to use and extensible:

http://forio.com/contour/

it also has good documentation:

http://forio.com/contour/documentation.html

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#43
post #27

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…

Can't understand why people would downvote this, Highcharts is extremely inexpensive compared to the other costs that go into a commercial product that would require extensive charting and the gained productivity and savings in development time are incredible. Two years ago I migrated a ExtJS web app that had taken 2 years to build to Highcharts + Bootstrap in about a month or two. What amazed me was that for every ExtJS charting extension that had to be written on top of the existing facilities to create more complicated graphs there was a built in option for it in Highcharts or a simple extension in the community forums.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#44
post #14

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.

I've been seeing this as a default behavior for some static site hosts. If you don't supply them with an error.html, they redirect 404s back to the homepage by default - but with a 302, not a 404 + meta redirect.

I'd much prefer a generic error page supplied by the host, even if it doesn't match the brand of the rest of my site - 404s are a pretty important piece of the internet.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#45
We paid a lot of cash for Highcharts (Highstock actually) a couple of years ago as an up-front investment for a process manager we were building - an OEM licence. This was about a month's salary, straight after I quit my FT job. The product is now ready to go live almost three years later, and there still isn't a charting library, free or otherwise, that offers us the same functionality that this did back when we licenced it.

Not to mention the fact that the CTO himself will fix bugs for you within a week or so if you ask him nicely. Great company and great model. I don't get how people can complain about the fact it costs money. The costs are passed on to your client who will gladly pay for a better product, and you're supporting the ecosystem. I'd have paid double what we paid.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#46

Thoughts on Highcharts vs Google Charts?

Google Charts is hosted, like https://app.chartblocks.com - you can download or save the charts that get produced but it's not a charting library that can be used offline. If you want hosted charts you've also got to give someone access to your data.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#47
post #27

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…

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Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#48
post #26

How is this news?

Hi and welcome to HN. HN is not just about news but also generally things that its community considers worth reading/looking at. If you are only interested in news, I would suggest you either find yourself a suitable news website or execute the mental strength to skip over content you are not interested in. Have a nice day!

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#49
post #14

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.

You mean like: http://mikewills.me/sucka/ ? Jekyll and S3.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

#50
post #27

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…

1) As I've already said, High Charts isn't that much better than the free alternatives.

2) If you're bootstrapping, every penny counts.

3) It's not $590, it's $1500 (or more).

4) Not many people pay for libraries or frameworks anymore, when open source alternatives are either better or just good enough.

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