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Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by chaostheory »

Hansi wrote: post #43
voidr wrote: post #27

Earlier 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…

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 E…

> Highcharts is extremely inexpensive compared to the other costs that go into a commercial product

Yes but Highcharts is extremely expensive compared to other alternatives which are free. Unless you're in the .NET world, no one really pays for libraries and frameworks anymore since the open source alternative is either better or just good enough.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by [deleted] »

Koldark wrote: post #49
simonw wrote: 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.

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Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by _jb »

chaostheory wrote: post #25

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

Other solutions are interesting, yes, but HighCharts is an incredible product with a LOT of features built-in. I've built a reporting tool on top of it and it covers a lot of use cases. Building the same visualization with another tool would require a lot of time, thought and iterations to make the API as simple.

For my use case, it's totally worth every single penny.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by nilkn »

dutchbrit wrote: post #41
chaostheory wrote: post #25

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.

It's been a while since I've used it, but I had to abandon Chart.js due to bad support for legacy browsers (even though it claimed the contrary). I haven't used Highcharts, but I've found flot to be pretty solid in cross-browser support.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by jasonlotito »

chaostheory wrote: post #50
voidr wrote: post #27

Earlier 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…

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.

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

Just wanting to point this out, but the price for a single developer, with support included, is currently $590 according to this page: http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html

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

Not many, sure. But then again, they aren't going for lots of smaller people, but instead, fewer large companies. This is smart, since they are pushing support services as well.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by deeviant »

boomskats wrote: post #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 lic…

I don't think the problem is that highcharts costs money, but that there are no good FOSS alternatives(I embarked on a fairly extensive search last week for a FOSS js charting libraries and although I did end up choose one of those for the project, it was not nearly as fleshed out as Highcharts). One thing that tends to happen when you have a very strong commercial library out there, is it often discourages the creation of a FOSS alternative, which is somewhat unfortunate.

FOSS is one of the great enablers of modern software engineering and FOSS is far from "gimme software for free and I give you nothing, thanks!" type situation that some people make it out to be.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by [deleted] »

voidr wrote: post #27
chaostheory wrote: post #25

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

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Post by cturhan »

The old youtube analytics page was using Highcharts I suppose and it was styled well. Currently they switched Google Charts to visualize data. I'm not sure because all the js code is obfuscated but when I look some values are not obfuscated the functions remind me the variables in these libraries.

Edit: Yes, currently it is definitely Google charts now but I think it was Highcharts in the past.

Re: Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

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Post by sigurdurf »

4 years ago I had to make a small webapp that displayed sensor data with up to 20000 points. At the time this was the only graph library I found that could handle so many points in a reasonable time, the library has some nice options for quickly summarizing large dataset to a smaller subset for visualizing.

Possibly there are better alternatives today for such datasets, I haven´t looked into it recently.

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