Ask HN: What's the best javascript charting library?

#1

Post by praveenaj » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

I know this question has been asked several times on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847515 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854926 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764708

But since all the posts are almost 2-3 years old, I'd like to ask it again, as there must have been major changes in the technologies and libraries since then.

Requirements: -Support as many chart types as possible. -Cross browser compatibility. -Rich and interactive

Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best javascript charting library?

#2

Post by swap24 » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 9:28 AM UTC

try: http://www.highcharts.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's the best javascript charting library?

#3

Post by sandyshankar » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 9:44 AM UTC

Google charts (https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs...), Flot (http://www.flotcharts.org/) are some of the popular options

Re: Ask HN: What's the best javascript charting library?

#4

Post by sirbrad » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 9:44 AM UTC

I would recommend Highcharts - http://www.highcharts.com/. Their api is great, really simple to use with a shit load of graph options.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best javascript charting library?

#5

Post by NicoJuicy » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 10:08 AM UTC

These are the most important once (had the same question 2 days ago) :

https://developers.google.com/chart/ (free) http://g.raphaeljs.com/ (free) http://www.flotcharts.org/ (free) http://www.jqplot.com/ (free) http://www.highcharts.com/ (paid for commercial use)