awesome-charting

A curated list of the best charting and dataviz resources that developers may find useful, including the best JavaScript charting libraries

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Commercial Libraries

amCharts Three libraries for traditional charts, stock, and maps. Features a hand-drawn style theme option
AnyChart Set of products for charting different types of data. Has a special Oracle Apex integration option
CanvasJS A tight set of chart types in a library with a small file size. Different looking default theme than other commercial libraries
FusionCharts Charting library with a strong maps component
Highcharts A series of charting libraries for a variety of uses. Can be compatible back to IE6
JSCharting Integrated suite of charting libraries with traditional charts types plus maps, stock, Gantt, grid and org charts in one package
Kendo UI Premium charting library with native UI components available for Angular, React, and Vue
ZingChart Built to render large data sets other libraries can't handle. Super customizable styling and new features added often. Everything in one modular library

Free and Open Source Libraries

apexcharts.js 14,240 14 days ago A JavaScript Chart Library with simple API
Billboard.js a fork of C3 that tracks D3 releases more closely
C3.js D3 based reusable chart library
Chart.js Tiny library (11kb!) including core chart types
Charts.css CSS data visualization framework
Chartist Simple, lightweight chart library that uses SVG to render the chart, and CSS to style it
Chartkick 6,331 about 2 months ago JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby
D3.js Allows the user to manipulate documents based on data to render charts in SVG
dc.js D3 Library with support
dygraphs 3,170 8 months ago Interactive zoomable time series charts
ECharts 60,265 5 days ago A powerful charting and visualization library for browser
EJSChart 34 over 8 years ago enterprise ready charting library
Graphosaurus 383 over 2 years ago 3D graph viewer powered by WebGL (three.js)
lightweight-charts 9,223 3 days ago Financial lightweight charts built with HTML5 canvas
Morris.js Simple API to render line, bar, area, and donut charts
Plotly 16,922 8 days ago Built on top of d3 and stack.gl, allowing users to create basic charts and SVG maps
Plottable 2,965 16 days ago Library with OOP style syntax to build charts
QuickChart 1,660 14 days ago Web API that renders static chart images
rgraph 2D/3D javascript charts with google sheets import capabilites
sigma.js 11,231 5 days ago Graphs / Network diagram library built with canvas
Smoothie Charts 2,249 over 1 year ago JavaScript charts for realtime streaming data
TauCharts Unique syntax that lets the developer describe the data using DSL. Has the ability to create facets
μPlot 8,721 8 days ago A small (< 25 KB min), fast chart for time series, lines, areas, ohlc & bars
uvCharts JavaScript Charting library built using d3.js
vis.js Network diagrams, descriptive timelines with labels, and has 3D graphs
reaviz Modular chart component library for React
reaflow Modular diagram engine for build static or interactive editors

Free Libraries

Google Charts Maps are dialed in (of course) and some cool animation options. Extensive docs and use community (forum)

Framework-Specific Libraries / Angular

Angular-Chart Simple API to render line, bar, area, and donut charts
n3-charts 1,203 over 2 years ago Easy to use library written with AngularJS, rendering charts with D3
Angular-scale 41 almost 2 years ago Simple and lightweight library for creating line charts

Framework-Specific Libraries / Ember

Ember Charts Five basic chart types ready to go in Ember.js projects

Framework-Specific Libraries / jQuery

Flot A JavaScript charting library for jQuery. Contains useful chart types but looks like it may no longer be in active development
jqPlot Open source jQuery plugin for drawing charts. Contains many commonly used features but may use different naming conventions for these items
jqxChart Plenty of chart types rendering in SVG, Canvas, and VML
JQuery-linechart Simple and lightweight library for creating line charts

Framework-Specific Libraries / Lit-html

lit-line 19 7 months ago {fast, small, interactive, fully responsive} Line Chart web component build on top of lit-html

Framework-Specific Libraries / React

nivo 13,090 about 2 months ago React components to easily build dataviz apps, built on top of D3
react-vis 8,727 26 days ago a composable visualization system by Uber
vx collection of reusable low-level visualization components, on top of d3
Potion Low-level building blocks for constructing animated visualizations with React & D3
react-chart-js 6,573 16 days ago React wrapper for Chart.js
react-d3 1,756 over 8 years ago Charting library that relies on React for generating SVG markup and d3 to calculate path values
react-muze 16 almost 4 years ago React wrapper for (free data visualization library for creating exploratory data visualizations in browser, using WebAssembly)
react-vis 8,727 26 days ago A collection of React components to render common data visualization charts
recharts Redefined chart library built with React and D3
Victory 10,967 12 days ago A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations

Data Visualization Resources

Dataviz Catalogue A place to go when you're wondering which chart type is best. A project by Severino Ribecca
Evergreen Data Information and opinions on presenting data more effectively
Flowing Data A resource on maps, visualizations, stats, and design by Nathan Yau, formerly of the New York Times
Junk Charts Dataviz critic (and Columbia professor) Kaiser Fung breaks down data visualizations to identify what is wrong and recommends ways to make them better
The Functional Art Noted data visualization author and professor Aberto Cairo's blog on dataviz trends and best practices
Visualizing Data Dataviz consultant Andy Kirk compiles examples, resources, and reference materials on the subject of charting and visualization
Well Formed Data Thought pieces on information visualization and design by Moritz Stefaner previously of the World Economic Forum

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