Ask HN: What are the best charting / graphing JavaScript tools

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  • viz.js

    Graphviz for the web (Viz.js on a diet) (by rapidlua)

    • > but the bundle is enormous - over a megabyte of data

    If only DOT layout engine and JSON output format is enabled at compile time it is about 600KiB, or less than 200KiB Gzipped. https://github.com/rapidlua/viz.js

    > A nice thing about having an SVG render is that it's very easy to attach events, and inline SVGs can be styled with CSS.

    Indeed it’s super handy! I’m using this approach in https://LuaJIT.me to produce an interactive visualisation of a graph of traces in a JIT compiler.

  • uPlot

    📈 A small, fast chart for time series, lines, areas, ohlc & bars

    • > did i spell it right

    almost ;)

    https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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