lttlabs How do Labs make their graphs on their website?

[PythonCLI]

Hey all, 

 

Does anyone know how the Labs team make the interactive graphs on the lttlabs.com website? I'm in the process of making a website and loved the graphs there so thought i'd ask!

 

Thanks :)

[C2dan88]

18 minutes ago, PythonCLI said:

I'm in the process of making a website and loved the graphs there so thought i'd ask!

Graphs appear to be made using a  premium js charting library called highcharts

https://www.highcharts.com/demo

[PythonCLI]

Oh cool! How did you figure that out?

[C2dan88]

1 hour ago, PythonCLI said:

How did you figure that out?

Googled the filenames of the js scripts being linked in the HTML source code. 

[LAwLz]

As C2dan88 said, they use a library called highcharts that seems to cost 176 dollars a year.

If you want a free library for making graphs, then I think Chart.js looks pretty nice.

 

https://www.chartjs.org/

 

They have some examples of what you can make on their website:

https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/samples/bar/horizontal.html

 

Of course, you can customize them as well.

[wasab]

The last organization I worked for uses echart from apache which is free and open sourced. It has a lot more components and graphs compared to other free ones out there. Developer experiences is kinda meh though. It was made using vanilla JavaScript and then later ported to react, angular, Vue which is kinda buggy at times or incompatible with the newest versions of whatever SPA you use. 

[duncannah]

We use highcharts at work, I had no clue that it was "premium", certainly doesn't feel like it

[PythonCLI]

3 minutes ago, duncannah said:

We use highcharts at work, I had no clue that it was "premium", certainly doesn't feel like it

Ouch - would you still recommend it though?

[duncannah]

12 minutes ago, PythonCLI said:

Ouch - would you still recommend it though?

While the dev experience isn't that great, it does have a lot of options (since our SaaS has a lot of analysis functionality, we use a bunch of different types of charts.) You're still much better off with one of the free options, I think.

[Hideki Ryuga]

me using matlibplot >_>