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Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

#51

Post by ergo14 » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 10:20 AM UTC

I've used rickshaw and nvd3 - chart.js seems pretty minimal compared to them.

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

#52

Post by skeletonjelly » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 10:35 AM UTC

cglee wrote: post #21

Throwaway0812 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget Highcharts... http://www.highcharts.com

Just from a cursory glance, it appears that Chartjs is entirely free and you can do what you want with it, while Highcharts is not.

Highcharts is free for non commercial

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

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Post by samdb » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 10:42 AM UTC

ergo14 wrote: post #51

I've used rickshaw and nvd3 - chart.js seems pretty minimal compared to them.

We tried NVD3 when we built http://www.chartblocks.com as it would have saved us loads of time. It wasn't great though and had almost no flexibility.

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

#54

Post by JelteF » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 10:55 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #41

Neat, I was looking over lots of different charting libraries the other day and this looks great. And it is free to use in commercial projects which, hopefully, will be relevant for me in the future!

Check out this one as well: https://morrisjs.github.io/morris.js/

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

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Post by brok3nmachine » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 11:09 AM UTC

I recently spent about 20 minutes setting up c3 (http://c3js.org/) for a commercial product I'm developing. Great library, but its footprint is fairly hefty. Looking forward to giving this a try, if it is just as quick to implement.

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

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Post by fredsted » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 12:33 PM UTC

Finally hover tooltips for bar graphs! A pretty important feature Chart.js was lacking before in my opinion.

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

#57

Post by Flip-per » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 12:39 PM UTC

I just gave it a try. It's nice and easy to use, but I need to draw a legend which it surprisingly doesn't seem to support, so I won't use it. Otherwise it'd have been a good match for my simple purposes (non-scaled, non-animated, non-interactive).

BTW, "options.pointDot = false" doesn't seem to have any effect. "options.pointDotRadius = 0" worked for me.

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

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Post by ceejayoz » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 12:40 PM UTC

Flip-per wrote: post #57

I just gave it a try. It's nice and easy to use, but I need to draw a legend which it surprisingly doesn't seem to support, so I won't use it. Otherwise it'd have been a good match for my simple purposes (non-scaled, non-animated, non-interactive). BTW, "options.pointDot = false" doesn't seem to have any effect. "options.pointDotRadius = 0" worked for me.

The "modular" section of the page appears to show a legend.

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

#59

Post by Flip-per » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 1:21 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #58

Flip-per wrote: post #57

I just gave it a try. It's nice and easy to use, but I need to draw a legend which it surprisingly doesn't seem to support, so I won't use it. Otherwise it'd have been a good match for my simple purposes (non-scaled, non-animated, non-interactive). BTW, "options.pointDot = false" doesn't seem to have any effect. "options.pointDotRadius = 0" worked for me.

The "modular" section of the page appears to show a legend.

True, but for line charts the labels are just used for the tooltips, not for any legend. For the old charts.js version there is a legend-extension on github (https://github.com/bebraw/Chart.js.legend) which I didn't try because I didn't think it'd be compatible with the current beta-release (I might be wrong).

Re: New Chart.js beta version launched

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Post by cpeterso » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

samdb wrote: post #53

ergo14 wrote: post #51

I've used rickshaw and nvd3 - chart.js seems pretty minimal compared to them.

We tried NVD3 when we built http://www.chartblocks.com as it would have saved us loads of time. It wasn't great though and had almost no flexibility.

If NVD3 didn't work out for you, what did charting library did you choose instead?