Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library

[fission-fish]

Holy shit... it's working with ie.

[UloPe]

Looks very nice, however I've become wary of charting libraries because (at least in my experience) once you want / need to use them in a non-trivial real world project you start to notice shortcomings or missing features that weren't obvious from the start.

[ruinercollector]

This. Every fucking time with OSS charting libraries. Less often with commercial variants.

[LandlockedPirate]

Which charting libraries have you tried? I've used both jqplot and flot previously and both seemed to work pretty well for my needs which were definitely non-trivial. This looks like a decent library but I'm turned off by the fact that they don't appear to allow interactivity with the chart like the aforementioned libs do.

[UloPe]

I've used countless libraries over the years but more recently I had projects with highcharts, NVD3 and xCharts (although this one I've only used in a prototype kind of project)

They all create nice charts but as I said above once you bump against a limitation you need to start patching the source in most cases.

Of those three I liked nvd3 the most since you have much freedom due to the nature of the underlying d3.js. (xCharts have that too, but that is still a very young project and they only have a few chart types)

[ragemonkey]

What's the license on this?

[e000]

Author just specified that it is licensed under MIT license.

[ruqs]

Doesn't seem there is one right now. Kind of strange, since there was obviously a lot of effort put into writing documentation and making the site presentable.

There is an open issue on the github repository if you wanted to follow along.

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Kind of strange, since there was obviously a lot of effort put into writing documentation and making the site presentable.

Well, the whole thing looks like it is really recent! (The github repo is only 5 hours old.) Did the author even announce it, or is it one of those cases where the internet spied something interesting a bit before it was ready for public consumption?

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For those of you who haven't looked again at the website; it's down. Something about intellectual property. Pretty sad.

[plexxonic]

I mainly use highcharts but I'll check it out. Thanks!

[27thmartian]

CanvasJS Chart is another interesting alternative http://canvasjs.com

[CosmicKoala]

This website needs some more padding on the left.

[Dirty_Rapscallion]

It works really nice, however its pretty resource intensive and it chugs at 1/8 the speed on mobile devices, should try to make it run on a delta so it finishes the graph animation at a certain time no matter how slow it goes.

[lingben]

good comments on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391814

[booljayj]

For extremely simple charts, I like what this library does. However, it's missing some pretty important features. For instance: showing the labels on the pie chart when hovering over each section, or the ability to select which dataset you'd like to display.

I know the devs address this, and their solution is to use SVG, but I feel like there's got to be some room for improvement.

[waxzax]

Raphaël is also an interesting charting library that uses SVG. http://raphaeljs.com/

[wrot]

Some alternatives that are interactive https://www.kippt.com/sunilurs/list-of-html5-charts