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amCharts vs Chart.js: What are the differences?

amCharts: Advanced javascript charting library that will suit any data visualization need. amCharts is an advanced charting library that will suit any data visualization need. Our charting solution include Column, Bar, Line, Area, Step, Step without risers, Smoothed line, Candlestick, OHLC, Pie/Donut, Radar/ Polar, XY/Scatter/Bubble, Bullet, Funnel/Pyramid charts as well as Gauges; Chart.js: Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers. Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.

amCharts and Chart.js belong to "Charting Libraries" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by amCharts are:

Free or Commercial
All chart and map types you might need
Works on all modern browsers and also old IE

On the other hand, Chart.js provides the following key features:

animated
HTML5 based
Responsive

Chart.js is an open source tool with 44.3K GitHub stars and 9.71K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Chart.js's open source repository on GitHub.

Advice on amCharts and Chart.js

Shaik Abdullah

Feb 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 117.8K views

Needs advice

Recharts

Chart.js

and

Highcharts

I have used highcharts and it is pretty awesome for my previous project. now as I am about to start my new project I want to use other charting libraries such as recharts, chart js, Nivo, d3 js.... my upcoming project might use react js as front end and laravel as a backend technology. the project would be of hotel management type. please suggest me the best charts to use

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Darren Adams

Senior Developer at Burning Glass Technologies · Aug 5, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 49.4K views

Recommends

Highcharts

I've used Highcharts with both Angular Js Reactive applications (render as ReactJs) and also a bit of D3. Personally I found Highcharts to be the easiest to use but, with still quite a good level of customisability if you need it. graphs and charts then give D3 a try.

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Pros of amCharts

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Mock-up tools
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Each element can be Customized

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Offers all types of charts
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Interactive Charts
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It's totally free
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Cons of amCharts

Cons of Chart.js

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Amcharts upgrade often need to rewrite all code

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Slow rendering
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Bitmap quality export
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Low quality zoom plugin
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What is amCharts?

amCharts is an advanced charting library that will suit any data visualization need. Our charting solution include Column, Bar, Line, Area, Step, Step without risers, Smoothed line, Candlestick, OHLC, Pie/Donut, Radar/ Polar, XY/Scatter/Bubble, Bullet, Funnel/Pyramid charts as well as Gauges.

What is Chart.js?

Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.

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What are some alternatives to amCharts and Chart.js?

Highcharts

Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types.

D3.js

It is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. Emphasises on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework.

Google Charts

It is an interactive Web service that creates graphical charts from user-supplied information. The user supplies data and a formatting specification expressed in JavaScript embedded in a Web page; in response the service sends an image of the chart.

FusionCharts

It is the most comprehensive JavaScript charting library, with over 100+ charts and 2000+ maps. Integrated with all popular JavaScript frameworks and server-side programming languages. Create interactive JavaScript charts for your web and enterprise applications.

Plotly.js

It is a standalone Javascript data visualization library, and it also powers the Python and R modules named plotly in those respective ecosystems (referred to as Plotly.py and Plotly.R). It can be used to produce dozens of chart types and visualizations, including statistical charts, 3D graphs, scientific charts, SVG and tile maps, financial charts and more.

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