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Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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Post by coldtea »

slg wrote: post #55
probdist wrote: post #50

I find it wildly perplexing that there are so many frameworks and libraries for javascript graphics and data visualization. Wikipedia has a comparison matrix of 37 different libraries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_charti... Here is a list describing briefly at least 50 libraries: http://techslides.com/50-javascript-charting-and-graphics-li...

Yeah, it is ridiculous. We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library that covers everyone's use cases.

Sarcasm aside that would be great.

And we already do that in other domains, e.g. NumPy covers most people Python number crunching use cases, Cocoa covers 95% of OS X people UI use cases, etc, MySQL and PostgreSQL cover 80% of the web app db use cases, Rails covers 90% of Ruby's webapp uses cases, Django and Flask do the same for Python, etc...

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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Post by elliott34 »

danielvinson wrote: post #54
h1fra wrote: post #27

I always rely on Highcharts, probably the biggest library presented here. Fit all the case (except map maybe) and flexible enough to let you change everything if you or your designer want something very specific !

HighCharts is great, but it is prohibitively expensive for a startup to use in their product.

It's 90$ for a single web page that's not considered a web application, which has a dubious definition "A web application is a website that has customer specific data or charges for its use."

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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Post by sergiotapia »

Awesome site! I would love to see which ones are for Android, JS, of iOS. For example, I'm actually looking for a charting library for iOS but can't seem to filter for that. Here's another site I use to sort of see a lay-of-the-land view of charting libraries:

http://stackshare.io/charting-libraries

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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Post by flashman »

slg wrote: post #55
probdist wrote: post #50

I find it wildly perplexing that there are so many frameworks and libraries for javascript graphics and data visualization. Wikipedia has a comparison matrix of 37 different libraries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_charti... Here is a list describing briefly at least 50 libraries: http://techslides.com/50-javascript-charting-and-graphics-li...

Yeah, it is ridiculous. We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library that covers everyone's use cases.

> We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library

There are now 38 different libraries

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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Post by pgwhalen »

andrepd wrote: post #58
slg wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it is ridiculous. We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library that covers everyone's use cases.

I get the sarcasm, but do you really need 37 friggin libraries to cover everyone's use cases in the relatively small field of JS graphing libraries?

Why do say it's a relatively small field? Outside of mobile, the desktop web is the front end target in all of computing these days, and JS is the only reasonable way to write for it.

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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Post by welder »

welder wrote: post #67

Great list! I personally use http://c3js.org for all charts on https://wakatime.com/ because it's easy to use like highcharts, but comes with an open license. It's basically a wrapper around d3.js for all the common reusable charts, which makes it very easy to style and customize.

Also, could you add "spline" chart type to the Graph Types filter? That chart type is one of the reasons I chose c3.js over others.

http://c3js.org/samples/chart_spline.html

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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Post by anhtran »

h1fra wrote: post #27

I always rely on Highcharts, probably the biggest library presented here. Fit all the case (except map maybe) and flexible enough to let you change everything if you or your designer want something very specific !

Highcharts is beautiful but it's quite expensive for a startup in my country (VN). While the budget for a nascent webapp is around $1000. I choose Flot as the replacement. It's flexible and nice enough with responsive layout, compound charts, clearly script.
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