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Chart.js vs MooTools: What are the differences?

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; MooTools: *A compact JavaScript framework *. It is a collection of JavaScript utilities designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful and flexible code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent APIs.

Chart.js can be classified as a tool in the "Charting Libraries" category, while MooTools is grouped under "Javascript Utilities & Libraries".

Chart.js is an open source tool with 44.7K GitHub stars and 9.79K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Chart.js's open source repository on GitHub.

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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 Chart.js
Pros of MooTools
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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 Chart.js
    Cons of MooTools
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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 Chart.js?

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

      What is MooTools?

      It is a collection of JavaScript utilities designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful and flexible code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent APIs.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

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      What tools integrate with Chart.js?
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      What are some alternatives to Chart.js and MooTools?
      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.
      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.
      ApexCharts
      A modern JavaScript charting library to build interactive charts and visualizations with simple API.
      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.
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