5 excellent JavaScript Chart plugin

Recently a foreign website published a JavaScript diagram plug-in introduction, the jquery plug-in contains a number of powerful diagramming plug-ins, but the plug-ins described here are not included in jquery. They also have excellent performance and are expected to become a strong competitor for Flash in this field. Let's take a look at their style:

1) emprise Javascript charts

Chart types: line, column, pie, function, area, scatter, trend, analog, chart, floating bar, stacked bar.).

Emprise is a truly powerful, pure JavaScript graphics plugin. Includes zooming in, interacting, stacking, and built-in AJAX features. It's the most powerful thing I've ever seen in all jquery diagramming plug-ins and other JavaScript plug-ins and Flash. However, a penny a penny, the price is very expensive. Emprise can allow individual users to use it for free (including some feature restrictions), but unlimited application licenses are up to $1000.

2) Bluff GrAPHS

Chart types: Cumulative (accumulator), area, histogram, line chart, mini bar, mini pie, mini sidebar, pie chart, mesh, sidebar, cobweb, stacked map

I was very impressed by the ease of use and the powerful embedded chart feature of the site as early as Bluff was released. Bluff also contains preset chart topics that look very beautiful. I use bluff in many places, they never let me down.

There are two ways to display a chart: one is to assign a JavaScript variable, the other is to read data from an HTML table, both of which work fine.

3) Raphael ' s Javascript Library

Chart type: Anything you want

Raphael's Javascript library also impressed me with the use of SVG and VML to create dazzling animated graphs, and you can play your own imagination to create all sorts of things.

It's also a great way to illustrate how the diagram works, such as its interactive charts can work like Flash in Google Analytics. This plugin is not developed primarily for chart applications, so it takes some extra work when you need to create a chart. It shows a direction for future JavaScript and vector graphics.

4) Jschart

Chart type: Histogram, line chart, pie chart

Jschart is another pretty good JavaScript graphic plug-in. The results of the chart display look very beautiful and are very easy to implement. The data source can be a JavaScript array or a legitimate XML file. The only thing you have to do is to specify which diagram to display and where to display it.

5) graph-it

Chart type: Mini bar chart

I also listed graph-it because it is similar to the style of creating a mini bar with the Sparklines plugin. Although the graphics don't look so great, you can change them freely.

Conclusion

Through these plug-ins we can see that JavaScript has a lot of powerful library of functions. I began to wonder how long flash could dominate the field, and from the Raphael plugin I felt the monopoly of breaking flash was just around the corner.