The last couple of weeks I worked on a feature that required to display a set of charts. Namely, a pie chart and a bar chart. One of them had to be interactive. We didn’t want a Flash chart.
I did some research and found these libraries:
This is what I think of them.
I liked it from the beginning. I thought it was simple and straightforward. I started using it. But the lack of documentation made me look for something better.
One would have to search through all the issues to find a solution. The examples weren’t extensive enough for me. And I didn’t want to scan through the source code to find out how to tweak it.
I would re-consider this library once they write the documentation. (Right now it says ‘work in progress’)
This library looks beautiful. But the license for it is a bit expensive. And I’m working on a commercial project. If there wasn’t a free solution, I would consider it.
I love this library. It is very well documented. There are a lot of examples. There is even a Code Playground section!
A few things that could be better:
- The customization of the look and feel. It could be more customizable.
- If it didn’t generate an iframe per chart.
- It could be faster.
But this library was good enough for my feature.
