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C3.js vs Highcharts vs React D3 Library: What are the differences?

Introduction

1. Data Visualization Types C3.js primarily focuses on providing interactive charts and graphs with a simpler API, while Highcharts offers a wide range of visualizations, including 3D charts and gauges, making it more versatile. React D3 Library integrates D3.js into React components, providing a powerful combination of data visualization capabilities.

2. Customizability Highcharts offers extensive customization options, allowing users to control almost every aspect of the chart's appearance and behavior, while C3.js has limited customization features compared to Highcharts. React D3 Library also provides high customizability through the use of D3.js.

3. Community Support Highcharts has a larger and more active community compared to C3.js, resulting in more resources, tutorials, and plugins available for users. React D3 Library benefits from the strong D3.js community support, providing a wealth of resources and examples for developers.

4. Performance Highcharts offers superior performance in rendering large datasets compared to C3.js due to its optimized architecture and rendering engine. React D3 Library utilizes the power of D3.js for efficient data manipulation and rendering, producing fast and responsive visualizations.

5. Licensing Highcharts requires a commercial license for any commercial or non-commercial use, while C3.js is open source under the MIT license, allowing free usage for both personal and commercial projects. React D3 Library is also open source, offering free usage and flexibility for developers.

6. Learning Curve C3.js is known for its ease of use and simplicity, making it ideal for beginners and quick implementations, whereas Highcharts and React D3 Library have steeper learning curves due to their advanced features and integration complexities, suiting more experienced developers.

In Summary, C3.js provides simplicity and ease of use, Highcharts offers versatility and extensive customization, while React D3 Library combines the power of D3.js with React components for advanced data visualization solutions.

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Shaik Abdullah
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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
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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 C3.js
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    Easy to use
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    Reusable charts
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    Low learning curve and powerful
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    Multiple chart types such as pie, bar, line and others
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    Responsive charts
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    Handles everything you throw at it
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    Extremely easy-to-parse documentation
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    Built-in export chart as-is to image file
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    Easy to customize color scheme and palettes
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    Export on server side, can be used in email
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    Cons of C3.js
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    Cons of React D3 Library
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      Dependent on D3.js which is not lightweight
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      Expensive
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      What is C3.js?

      c3 is a D3-based reusable chart library that enables deeper integration of charts into web applications.

      What is 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.

      What is React D3 Library?

      An open source library that will allow developers the ability to reroute D3 output to React’s virtual DOM. Just use your existing D3 code, and with a few simples lines, you can now harness the power of React with the flexibility of D3!

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      What are some alternatives to C3.js, Highcharts, and React D3 Library?
      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.
      NVD3
      This project is an attempt to build re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js without taking away the power that d3.js gives you. This is a very young collection of components, with the goal of keeping these components very customizable, staying away from your standard cookie cutter solutions.
      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.
      jQuery
      jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
      React
      Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
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