apexcharts.js VS trois

As a frontend dev who also works in UX and graphics from time to time, I find it helpful to be able to do both, looking at SVGs as both a vector graphics format and a human-readable XML. IME the workflow depends more on whether any SVG is meant to be illustrative (like art) or quantitative (like charts) or interactive and animated/mutable (like a game).

For something like this bell example (https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/bell), you can certainly hand-code it if you're really math-inclined and can estimate the formulas of curves just by looking at them, but for us mere mortals, it's easier to just draw out the curves in a graphics app then export as an SVG. And for things like the ringer (is that what you call it? the orange ball thing at the bottom of the bell that strikes the bell to make the sound), being able to visually draw it on a canvas, change its size, drag it around and play with its colors and dimensions, etc. is really helpful. Figma is fine for simpler graphics, but it's really more of a UX tool than a graphic design tool, and Illustrator is a lot more powerful. Inkscape is a FOSS option.

In other circumstances, though, manipulating the SVG XML directly is also very helpful. Let's say you want to programatically generate a bar chart. If you have a big dataset, it's going to take a designer forever to manually plot them and change them every time the data changes. But it's easy for a dev to use Javascript (or any language) to draw each rectangle, programmatically adjust their heights and colors based on the data, add tooltips, etc. And that way you can dynamically update them in real-time whenever the data changes (like if the user selects a different date range, or new events come in). A lot of this is made easier by libs like https://frappe.io/charts or https://apexcharts.com. But before you take that approach, you should know that for complex charts, sometimes Canvas rendering (or just generating graphics in the backend) can be more performant than SVG.

SVGs can also be animated and interactive, not just with CSS transitions but by directly manipulating the XML geometries, like http://snapsvg.io/demos/ or https://www.svgator.com/ or https://codepen.io/collection/XpwMLO/. This is fine for product pages and such, but for really graphics-intensive apps (full games) it's probably slower than other rendering pipelines. (Not my specialty, won't speculate too much.)

TLDR Drawing them in a graphics app is usually easier for the designers, but the XML can be programmatically manipulated afterward to great effect.

ApexCharts is a modern charting library that helps developers to create beautiful and interactive visualizations for web pages. It is an open-source project licensed under MIT and is free to use in commercial applications.

tradingview.com for the chart... but also apexcharts.com is a decent open source library whereas TV is not open source

ApexCharts: https://apexcharts.com/ Easy integration with Vue.

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we're using https://apexcharts.com/ in production and are reasonably satisfied with it

Part of the reason is because libraries like Paper.js, Pixi.js, and Three.js are working with canvas, which doesn't have inner DOM elements. But the, I remembered Trois.js and it's amazing API for rendering 3D scenes via components.

Because of this, many libraries emerged with the aim of using Three.js inside a framework. I have tried Angular Three and Trois.js for Vue but I prefer React Three Fiber because of its large community, examples and documentation but feel free to give a try to the other ones.

As a Web 3D developers, I emphasis, the past years haven't been kind, the learning curve was steep and a lot of work has to be done to get a decent product, but I believe the trend is changing, the technology is getting more accessible and more recognized, a lot JavaScript libraries/frameworks are integrating three.js (React Fiber, Vue Trois ...) to their ecosystem extending the community, there are also more WebGL based editors some using three.js as an engine (Spline, Vectary ...) while they're far from being blender or 3ds Max, and they'll probably never will be, they're in active development and a good starting point toward a more software based development.

- VueUse (https://vueuse.org/) - Pinia (https://pinia.vuejs.org/) - Vite (obvs) - Tailwind as mentioned - Added Oruga :) - TroisJS (https://troisjs.github.io/) when I want to go 3d - Netlify CMS (I rely heavily on Netlify, at this point) Not going to use everything always, but this gives me the flexibility to go anywhere I want, with Vue at the heart of it all.

⚡️ ViteJS / HMR Really fast development time with ViteJS/HMR ! Useful to create awesome 3D scenes. https://troisjs.github.io/

TroisJS : https://github.com/troisjs/trois