plotly.js VS react-vis

Plotly is based on D3. Has both open-source version and paid option.

https://plotly.com/javascript/

Plotly as our chart renderer

In this lesson, we will go through the steps of using Plotly.js in React. Plotly.js is an Open Source Graphing Library. At the end of this lesson, you should be able to do a simple plot with Plotly.js.

Well, MathML[1] support is (nearly) everywhere now, and as the docs say:

MathML Core is a subset with increased implementation details based on rules from LaTeX and the Open Font Format. It is tailored for browsers and designed specifically to work well with other web standards including HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript.

I don't have a lot of experience working with this stuff (yet) but if you can script your MathML objects with Javascript, you should be able to make whatever interactive "stuff" you want in terms of math notation. Now drawing objects and plots and stuff is a different question.

There's stuff like Plotly[2], D3[3], Sigma[4], etc. that might be useful depending on exactly what effects you're going for.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML

[2]: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js

[3]: https://d3js.org/

[4]: https://www.sigmajs.org/

This is the end of the lesson. For more information on Plotly.js, check the documentation Plotly.

Install react-vis by using the following command:

I've heard good things about Uber's react-vis https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-vis

D3.js is great for custom data viz. You can get started by including the library in a script tag and not have to mess around with a bundler like Webpack until you are ready and just use plane CSS. D3.js doesn't work well with JS frameworks like React - it was jQuery like DOM manipulation functions. I find the best approach is to let D3 manage its chart and leave React for the UI. Or you can use a more React friendly library like React Viz from Uber. While D3 is great for custom data viz it's time consuming for standard charts. There are a lot of charting libraries out there like Chart.js. There is also Plot which is built on D3.js.

React Vis averages 100,000+ weekly downloads, 8.3k stars and 850 forks on Github.

react-vis

I am trying to use react-vis library in my project. In their readme file, they have asked to import library by adding following lines in non-node environment:

I had an existing working react code written in Typescript (and hence ES6) using react-vis library. The library itself seem to use ES6.

I have referenced react-vis library form unpkg as stated in their github repo:

The repository can be found here and is definitely worth taking a look.

react-vis - Data visualization library based on React and d3.