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Hey guys,

So I'm busy testing different charting Libraries with the goal of finding the most efficient one.

So far I've gone the usual route of D3 and Highcharts and it's been... Interesting.

I'm essentially building highly customized charts which consists out of a few elements.

Do any of you have experience or suggestions of any other charting libraries that are highly customization.
 
Hey guys,

So I'm busy testing different charting Libraries with the goal of finding the most efficient one.

So far I've gone the usual route of D3 and Highcharts and it's been... Interesting.

I'm essentially building highly customized charts which consists out of a few elements.

Do any of you have experience or suggestions of any other charting libraries that are highly customization.

Highcharts is great, works well, using it on multiple websites. To get anything better, you're going to need to pay for something like Telerik or DevExpress or build your own custom chart control.
 
Highcharts is commercial and I am not a big fan of paying for stuff. I used charts.js and just wrote an angular implementation of each chart to make them easy to use. Free and works lekker.
 
Hey guys,

So I'm busy testing different charting Libraries with the goal of finding the most efficient one.

So far I've gone the usual route of D3 and Highcharts and it's been... Interesting.

I'm essentially building highly customized charts which consists out of a few elements.

Do any of you have experience or suggestions of any other charting libraries that are highly customization.
Wait a tick. Doesn't Highcharts cost a crapload?

Have you played with C3? I think C3 just wraps D3 making it a bit simpler to get a foot in the door.
And then, Dygraphs. Berry nice, just slightly old. Very fast though.

Have yet to play with Google Charts, but that looks interesting as well.
 
Keep coming back to chart.js. Currently using it with the react wrapper. There's quite a few wrappers around D3 to make it easier etc, and maybe one day might move to it but when you just need to drop some charts on a page chart.js has proven flexible enough and easy enough. It also basically "exists" everywhere with a ton of wrappers etc.
 
Yea, Highcharts is shit expensive but the more I play with it the more it makes sense.

Thanks for the input so far.
 
Depends what you mean by highly customizeable in the sense of what do you need.

The ones I like in order of preference:

amCharts - Amazing and free
eCharts - Also pretty damn good and free
Flot Charts - It's alright I guess. Also free
Morris.js - Great for basic needs and can look nice and clean. Also free
 
Been using D3 for some of the data visualisation here at the office. It is well worth the effort to go through the docs and examples.
 

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