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Add to SafariWhen comparing Flot vs Shield UI, the Slant community recommends Shield UI for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript charting libraries? ” Shield UI is ranked 3rd while Flot is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Shield UI is:
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro Real-time updates
Flot provides live updating with a customizable update time.
Pro Drag to select
Pro Simple configuration
Pro Many chart types available
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
Pro 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.
Pro Supports combining different charts
Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)
Pro 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.
Cons
Con Limited choice of charts
Currently, Flot supports a limited number of chart types (lines, bars, filled area and point chart).
Con Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.
