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Pro Responsive charts
The charts are fully responsive, meaning they resize based on the viewport width.
Pro Clear documentation
The chart.js documentation is well organized and provides detailed information on using each feature.
Con 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.
Pro Extremely powerful
Since D3.js is quite low level, it can generate a huge set of different visualizations. You can find various examples here.
Pro 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.
Con 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...
Pro Large and active community
Highcharts has a large and supportive community, resulting in a fast response from both stack overflow and the Highcharts forum.
Pro Excellent browser support
Highcharts supports all modern browsers (including IE6 and up), iOS and Android.
Con Can be expensive
Highcharts is not free for commercial projects, with a starting price of $90/USD for use on one simple webpage and, up to $3,600 for maintenance and support.
Pro Numerous chart options available
Built on d3 so you can leverage existing skills.
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Pro 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.
Pro Multiple supported data formats
Supports the Javascript API, XML, JSON, CSV.
Con It's not free
The prices start from $49 per product.
Pro Lightweight and fast
Chartist is lightweight at only 10KB, resulting in very little impact on load time.
Pro Offers fully responsive charts
Chartist offers responsive configuration with media queries, which not only resizes the chart but also provides different text and shapes.
Con Animations only work in modern browsers
Animation support is somewhat limited, with IE not supported at all.
Pro High performance
Charts can render tens of thousands of data points without any performance issues.
Pro Works across devices and browsers
Charts can render across devices including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, Desktops, etc.
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Pro 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. gRaphaël supports IE 6+, Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, and Opera 9.5+.
Con Not actively developed
There has been no contributions on the github page for the last 3 years. Most issues go without any replies.
Pro Extensible
This is a fairly extensible library that allows you to add your own components
Pro Beautiful
Charts made with Recharts look great.
Con Depends on ReactJS
This relies upon React.js so if you're not using React, this isn't really an option.
Pro Many language bindings
R, Python, Julia, etc.
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Pro Tons of built-in features
Other libs just can't compete with the amount of built-in functionality ZC offers. Built-in tokenized logic rules Easy to use zooming/preview functionality available across the library Share legends, crosshairs, and zoom controls across charts
Pro Good support
Their support team is fast to respond and super helpful.
Con Features can be hard to find
The documentation could be better. There are features of the lib that you might not know about unless you ask support.
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