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D3.js
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Steep learning curve
The complexity and flexibility of D3.js results in it being a time-consuming tool to learn for many users. D3 is incredibly flexible; probably more so than any other JavaScript visualization library at the time of this posting. With that flexibility comes increased complexity. If you just want to create some quick charts you will get results faster with something else.
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Large community
D3.js is a very popular tool with an active community, resulting in plenty of learning resources and fast responses to questions.
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"Selections" are elegant, but somewhat hard to grok
Selections are core to working with D3 beyond the basics. They're powerful and useful, but require new developers to get up to speed (e.g. set aside 30m to read and digest: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Selections) and if used in the context of a larger application will result in a portion of the code using different patterns than the rest, requiring a translation layer in between.
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Huge number of examples online
Most of the examples provided are by the author, but there's also a great community writing plugins and more examples.
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Doesn't require a proprietary framework
D3's emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework.
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Versatile library for manipulating data on the DOM
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Very flexible join paradigm
Can be tricky at first, but once learned, data manipulation and binding can easily generate complex visualizations for massive amounts of data.
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Great for highly interactive scenes
D3.js offers incredible levels of interactivity.
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Backwards compatible
D3.js is intended for modern browsers, so supports IE9 and above (IE8 with an additional library) as well as all the other modern browsers.
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Chart.js
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Lightweight and fast
The library contains a set of 6 charts and is 11Kb gzipped, this makes its loading time and page impact low.
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Limited features
Chart.js currently offers only 6 graph types, and lacks the flexibility offered by other options. For example, controlling the display of tooltips is fairly limited.
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Responsive charts
The charts are fully responsive, meaning they resize based on the viewport width.
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Canvas based
Canvas it bitmap based and shares the same issues as non-vector formats.
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Clear documentation
The chart.js documentation is well organized and provides detailed information on using each feature.
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Plugin support
Many plugins available via NPM and you can easily write your own
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Chartist.js
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Uses SVG
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Very humble feature set
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Lightweight and fast
Chartist is lightweight at only 10KB, resulting in very little impact on load time.
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Animations only work in modern browsers
Animation support is somewhat limited, with IE not supported at all.
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Offers fully responsive charts
Chartist offers responsive configuration with media queries, which not only resizes the chart but also provides different text and shapes.
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No dependencies
Chartist.js has no dependencies, keeping it lightweight and fast to configure.
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AnyChart
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A lot of different data formats
xml, json, csv, js api.
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Proprietary
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Lots of chart types
Including bar, line, area, scatter, waterfall, spline, funnel, bubble, polar, column, columnrange, pie, box plot, angular gauge, areasplinerange, and other types of "basic" charts (AnyChart); Gantt charts (AnyGantt); Maps (AnyMap), and Financial/Stock charts (AnyStock).
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Expensive
Once you use it on anything but a site, it rapidly gets expensive.
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Independent from other js libraries
no jQuery or libraries.
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IE6+ support, along with mobile browsers
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Experienced team and long product history
AnyChart is on the market since 2003.
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Events support
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Flexibility
Any part of chart can be adjusted.
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A lot of integration templates
Technical integration templates for many popular stacks.
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Pixi.js
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Supports WebGL w/ canvas fallback
Pixi is a WebGL renderer, but can fall back to canvas if WebGL is not supported or turned off.
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Not a complete solution
Pixi only provides the renderer.
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Will be familiar to ActionScript developers
Pixi.js uses a code structure that's very similar to ActionScript.
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CanvasJS Charts
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Works across devices and browsers
Charts can render across devices including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, Desktops, etc.
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No drill-down
There is no drill-down possibilities built in.
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High performance
Charts can render tens of thousands of data points without any performance issues.
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Non-interactive
Charts lack interactivity features.
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Free for non-commercial use (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License)
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Cost for commercial use
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Start-up friendly
Offers discounted pricing for start-ups and new companies.
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Good commercial pricing
A single developer license for CanvasJS costs $299.
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Supports 24 different chart types
Supports 24 different chart types including line, column, bar, spline, area, pie, doughnut, stock charts, etc.
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ZingChart
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Tons of styling options
You can get extremely granular with the styling (which is very CSS-like). You can customize pretty much any aspect of a chart, so they can match your application or website perfectly.
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Not open source
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Robust API
The advantage of using a JavaScript charting library is that you can make interactive charts. The API here lets you make the most of this advantage.
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The free version inserts a watermark on all charts
Either their watermark is on all the charts or you have to pay expensive license fees.
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Easy to try
ZingChart hosts the full version of the library for evaluation on their CDN for you to try in just a matter of minutes.
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Angular wrapper
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Free branded version
There is a free version available, however it's branded. Licenses start at $249.
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jQuery wrapper
ZingChart has a well-built and excellently documented jQuery wrapper, making it easier to integrate ZingChart into your jQuery code.
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Handles large data sets without bogging down
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Webix
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A lot of widgets
Webix is one of the most extensive UI component libraries, second only to Sencha ExtJS. Not only considering the number of widgets, but also the API methods for manipulating these widgets.
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Commercial license
It's not free for commercial applications.
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Views can be constructed using JavaScript without HTML
The most common way of working with webix is to create a JSON configuration of your view in JavaScript. When you use TypeScript, you get complete typechecking and intellisense in your IDE.
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Not very popular
Not really a reason to not recommend it. But it has still a small user base. It deserves a lot more attention.
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Seems to be quite stable
Even the most complicated GUIs are bug-free most of the time.
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Not modular
The library is not modular (except for some additional more complex widgets). If you only need a few widgets, you still need to include the entire library.
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Webix Jet
The webix Jet library adds all the required features for SPA development (routing, template loading, ...)
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Extremely simple to implement.
To get started is extremely simple. It has a low learning curve.
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Mature project
Regular updates and releases.
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Great support from the webix team
The company behind webix is really quick in answering any questions you have on their forum or via email.
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Awesome responsive material skins
Great design and icons pack.
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JSCharting
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Huge suite of samples gives a jumping off point to save time for various projects
The various chart types are all included where other options sell separate products for stock, mapping and other advanced types.
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Commercial solution
Paid licensing, but for commercial work it's worth it.
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Real support
Support is included and provided by actual developers that give you a real answer quickly.
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Good documentation
The API documentation is thorough for property settings and includes some links to examples and tutorials.
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Livegap charts
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Free
Tool to easily create beautiful chart from any data then save as image or animated HTML Charts
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No candlestick charts
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Charts can be exported to multiple formats
Charts can be exported to images or HTML.
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No gantt chart
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Can be opened from the browser
The tool is online and can be used from a web browser, no application is needed.
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Recharts
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Extensible
This is a fairly extensible library that allows you to add your own components
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Depends on ReactJS
This relies upon React.js so if you're not using React, this isn't really an option.
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Beautiful
Charts made with Recharts look great.
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Fast
Recharts renders quickly and smoothly.
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Shield UI Charts
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Many chart types available
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
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Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.
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Wrappers for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Apache Wicket
Each chart can be implemented to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications, with detailed documentation and guides for each.
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Good documentation
Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)
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Interactive charts
The charting widget is built to facilitate client side interactions and notifications.
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Out of the box pan-and-zoom
Zoom-in on specific points of interest on the graph with the mouse – a single property allows this out-of-the-box.
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Supports combining different charts
You can combine different charts (they can be of the same type or even different types of charts) to display data correlations.
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Flot
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Easy to use
Flot provides detailed and well organized documentation that includes plenty of code examples you're free to use. It's fast to customize and add functionality, partially due to its use of jQuery.
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Limited choice of charts
Currently, Flot supports a limited number of chart types (lines, bars, filled area and point chart).
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Real-time updates
Flot provides live updating with a customizable update time.
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Drag to select
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Simple configuration
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Raphael
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Complicated, confusing documentation
The documentation is often not clear and lacks practical examples.
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Works with older browsers
Because Raphael supports rendering VML + SVG, it is one of the few drawing libraries that is backwards compatible with older browsers that do not support canvas.
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Can be difficult to get support
Online communities for Raphael are small and inactive compared to other drawing libraries, and many issues opened on github are never addressed.
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Built in animations
Several built-in animations (such as ways of easing) are provided for you out of the box, but Raphael also allows cubic beziers for more complicated easing functions. Any drawing object property can be modified making it similar to css animations in jQuery.
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Every object is interactive with events
Everything that is drawn in Raphael is an object which means it is easy to manipulate any part of the rendered image after it is processed. It uses an event handler system for user inputs which makes it easy to learn for JavaScript developers used to event based libraries. An interactive chart demo. This style of handling objects makes Raphael a good fit for rendering interactive diagrams and charts that can also interact with other parts of the page.
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Easy creation of charts with extension
gRaphael is a Raphael extension to help you easily create graphs and charts.
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Shield UI
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Many chart types available
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
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Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.
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Wrappers for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Apache Wicket available
Each chart can be implemented to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications, with detailed documentation and guides for each.
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Supports combining different charts
Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)
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Supports combining different charts
You can combine different charts (they can be of the same type or even different types of charts) to display data correlations.
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KoolChart
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Charts look beautiful
The colors and shapes of charts are very beautiful.
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Not open source - 2 month trial
https://www.koolchart.com/download/
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Event handling and user interactivity
If you have data that meets certain conditions, you can highlight it or create another chart at that data point. Also, you can use the built-in data editor to simulate the chart while directly modifying the chart data
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The most numerous sample charts provided
30 chart types and 400 ready-to-use sample charts are pre-packaged in KoolChart, which is the most numerous provided in a single package. Here are some sample charts available. https://www.koolchart.com/demo/line_chart https://www.koolchart.com/demo/histogram_chart https://www.koolchart.com/demo/target_chart https://www.koolchart.com/demo/wing_chart
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Very easy and intuitive
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Lazy data processing
This is a very useful feature when used with the scroll function because of the large amount of data.
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Candlestick charts
https://www.koolchart.com/demo/index.html?type=Line&name=0
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Various types of charts are available
KoolChart provides a variety of useful charts. It can bring your business data effective visualization.
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Paths.js
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Just helps building graphs, complements template engines or data-binding libraries
Can be used together with a template engine such as Mustache or Handlebars to display SVG graphics or instead of a static template engine, you can use a data binding or MVC/MV* library, such as Ractive.js, Angular, Mithril or Facebook React.
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3 APIs for the price of one
3 APIs of increasing abstraction: Low-level (svg paths) Basic shapes (Polygon, Rectangle, Bezier, Sector, Connector etc..) Basic graphs (Pie, bar, stock, radar, tree, waterfall, sankey etc...) There is no magic, you can have as much control as you want on how you define your graphs, source code very readable.
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Lightweight
18kb minified.
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AnyChart
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Multiple supported data formats
Supports the Javascript API, XML, JSON, CSV.
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Extremely flexible and customizable
Any part of a chart can be changed and customized.
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Each chart element responds to user actions
Events can be distributed to chart elements which respond to user actions. Event listeners are simple JavaScript functions which are very easy to use and understand.
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Multiple plugins and integration templates are available
Plugins for AngularJS, Ember.js, jQuery, Meteor, Node.js, React: http://www.anychart.com/plugins Technical integration templates and samples for all popular programming languages, frameworks and libraries, and databases: http://www.anychart.com/integrations/
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Full cross-browser support
Supports all browsers, including IE6+ along with mobile browsers.
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Open source
The open source code is hosted on GitHub under different licenses depending on the library.
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No dependencies
No jQuery or other libraries required.
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Long product history, experienced team
AnyChart has been operating from 2003 and the team is very experienced with a long history of releasing quality products.
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Detailed documentation and API reference
The documentation and API reference are very detailed and everything is explained in detail in a simple and clear way.
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A lot of supported chart types
Supports almost all chart types one could ever want. From the most common bar charts, area charts, and donut charts, to funnel charts, polar charts or Japanese Candlestick charts.
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Snap.svg
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Pure SVG library
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Not actively developed
During 2016 was few updates, more updates in 2017
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Written by a SVG Guru and pioneer
Dmitry Baranovskiy also wrote Raphael (project now owned by Sencha), this is the updated modern version of that library. Dmitry also is a champion directly affecting the future of SVG standards with W3C
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Spotty exporting
Exporting doesn't work well (if at all sometimes) with SVGs exported from anything other than Adobe products.
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Backed by Adobe
Adobe is backing the development of snap.svg
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Weak documentation
Explanations provided in the documentation can often be unclear, with some features missing from the documentation all together.
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Features
Supports the newest SVG features like masking, clipping, patterns, full gradients, groups, and more
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p5.js
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Accessible documentation
Reference documentation and lots of examples are available directly on the website.
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No built-in rendering
If looking for something to build UIs with or similar, one might be disappointed by the lack of any pre-defined UI element objects and such in p5.js. One has to write all the rendering code for any objects one includes, integrating it appropriately with the loop.
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Great community
p5 users benefit from the Processing community's 15+ years of growth and discovery. Processing code can easily be converted to p5.
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General programming concepts
As a continuation of the Processing project, this frameworks helps in understanding the general programming concepts that goes beyond drawing (connecting electronics, using sounds or the webcam etc),
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Easiest to learn to obtain high grade results
In a few days any body can understand extremely complex figures in a few minutes.
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A lot of YouTube tutorials
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