Frappe Charts VS chartist-js

Compare Frappe Charts vs chartist-js and see what are their differences.

Frappe Charts

Simple, responsive, modern SVG Charts with zero dependencies (by frappe)

chartist-js

Legacy Chartist Repo for old gh-pages (by gionkunz)
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Frappe Charts chartist-js
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14,876 64
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3.4 0.0
6 months ago 10 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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Frappe Charts

Posts with mentions or reviews of Frappe Charts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • Learn SVG with 25 examples – How to code images in HTML
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023
    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.

  • [Showoff Saturday] I made a thing that shows you your valorant match stats
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 28 Jan 2023
    charts: https://frappe.io/charts

chartist-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of chartist-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Frappe Charts and chartist-js you can also consider the following projects:

Chart.js - Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag

heatmap.js - 🔥 JavaScript Library for HTML5 canvas based heatmaps

jquery.sparkline - A plugin for the jQuery javascript library to generate small sparkline charts directly in the browser

DHTMLX Gantt - GPL version of Javascript Gantt Chart

d3 - Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

vis-timeline - 📅 Create a fully customizable, interactive timelines and 2d-graphs with items and ranges.

d3-dual-range-slider - SVG component for dual-range-slider built with D3.js.

p5.js - p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —

c3 - :bar_chart: A D3-based reusable chart library

peity - Progressive <svg> pie, donut, bar and line charts