Does anyone know of a way to print echarts to a PDF, without having a headless Chromium instance involved? Been fighting this at work.
Apache ECharts
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a very bizarre take. If you want to just blindly copy and paste d3 code, you may have issues with the docs being hosted on observable. But absolutely zero part of the d3 api (or core design patterns of use) have anything to do with observable. It’s like saying, “I refuse to use PyTorch because their docs are built with mkdocs.” Moreover, even if the coupling were limiting (which, again, it is not), it’s odd t…
Look, it’s not “bizarre” to point out that Observable has deeply shaped the modern D3 ecosystem. The issue isn’t that the D3 API has changed, it’s that a huge number of learning resources, examples, and docs have been rebaked into Observable’s reactive notebook style, which, for people not using Observable, adds a ton of indirection and mental overhead. You might not notice it if you already know D3 inside and out, b…
I'm an experienced dev and looked seriously into D3 some month ago for the first time. I can confirm what you wrote. The notebooks feel like an unnecessary hurdle. It's not a big hurdle, but one that could be avoided so a slightly annoying experience.
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#163after trying many charting, we settled on Apache Echart as well. its really flexible for lot of use-cases and customizable.
if this doesnt work for you, the only option left is D3.
Btw, we have not looked at many paid chart options like hicharts or other.
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#164The demo page is ridiculously long. I ran out of things to search for. Well done!
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks neat, but unlike the Hans Rosling example someone else mentioned, the animation adds no additional information. Showing just the last frame would get the same point across much quicker and more accessible. It's a form of chartjunk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk
You know how a presenter asks questions on a topic where he is the expert? Same goes for this animation. It does not show but hide information to keep the reader engaged. I found myself guessing who will be first and boy was I wrong. My ego would have prevented me from noticing, if the chart would have been presented to me right away. On YouTube you can see how well this works. There are channels with a huge follower…
Not completely unrelated, the mechanical horse race game that used to be at The D in Vegas, and now is at the Linq (I think?) has a similar effect on the human psyche. As does gambling on most sporting events. Anything with a lot of ups and downs. I really started to think about this when I was developing casino games about 15 years ago. But the same is true with any game, or any future event. When an outcome is unknown, we experience time as a set of discrete emotional peaks and valleys - we experience an extra dimension of time, the high/low. Apart from being a highly successful design hook, I think it can be a really powerful way to encode information. Especially if you have time-referenced data and you've already exhausted the other axes or relative sizes you might use to convey your dimensions. Like, my main argument with using that "race" is that you could use the x-axis for something else, and have the whole graph change over time.
But you're very right that this indeed relies on an emotional component to achieve the full effect of conveying time in two dimensions. If there's no emotional attachment to the outcome, our brains don't process the highs or lows. In that case, a variance chart like open/close prices on the stock market might work better.
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#166We've tested almost every visualization library under the sun when building Briefer ( https://briefer.cloud ) and I can confidently say that Apache ECharts is the best. The main issues with other libraries is that they're either: (a) ugly (b) difficult to use (i.e. having to do things imperatively) (c) not flexible enough Apache ECharts solve these 3 problems. It's pretty by default, it allows us to mount/calculate t…
I recently had the need to create a gradient line chart with each step on the y-axis representing a color which should blend with its neighbors, and echarts was the only option that made sense to me after trying a few. The lack of obvious react integration initially put me off, but like any js lib it was pretty easy to use anyway. Echarts surprised me - it's great.
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#167ECharts is in my opinion the best out there. It surprisingly doesn't come up in a lot of lists or search for charting libraries. I've tried them all: chart.js, google charts, amCharts, Highcharts, ApexCharts. We use it in our tool/library https://docs.chartsql.com/
I'm a big fan of VisX for the level of control it gives.
I love visx! Surprised to see your comment is the only mention of it here.
I guess it’s specifically a react library, but it’s such a sweet spot of control and built-in convenience. Having all the annoying stuff like curves/axes/scales/shapes handed to you in a pretty un-opinionated way is really nice.
I was at a startup for a few years and I built all of our client’s dashboards in visx. I loved it from the first minute to the last, and have almost no complaints. And there are few few libraries I can say that about!
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#168We use ECharts extensively in Evidence ( https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence ). Overall has been a delight.
Such an amazing project! Although I don't have any use case as of right now, will definitely keep this one in mind.
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#169ECharts is in my opinion the best out there. It surprisingly doesn't come up in a lot of lists or search for charting libraries. I've tried them all: chart.js, google charts, amCharts, Highcharts, ApexCharts. We use it in our tool/library https://docs.chartsql.com/
I think that’s because it’s a Chinese Project. Same thing with Ant Design Components, which are really awesome but not as well known as they should be.
A large number of developers/users of Apache ECharts also seem to be Chinese.
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#170What does this have over Plotly, Chart.js, D3, Bokeh, etc
A very large library of premade charts for web. Probably the largest I've seen. Less customizable than chart.js, and D3 is more of a rendering library than a charting library.
Can you name one thing that chart.js does that Apache ECharts cannot do?