ag-charts-core

What is ag-charts-core?

The ag-charts-core package is a powerful charting library that allows developers to create a wide variety of charts for data visualization. It is part of the AG Grid ecosystem and provides a flexible and customizable way to represent data graphically.

What are ag-charts-core's main functionalities?

Line Charts

Line charts are used to display data points connected by straight lines. This is useful for showing trends over time.

{ "type": "line", "data": { "series": [{ "xKey": "year", "yKey": "value", "data": [{ "year": 2020, "value": 50 }, { "year": 2021, "value": 75 }] }] } }

Bar Charts

Bar charts represent data with rectangular bars. They are useful for comparing quantities across different categories.

{ "type": "bar", "data": { "series": [{ "xKey": "category", "yKey": "value", "data": [{ "category": "A", "value": 30 }, { "category": "B", "value": 80 }] }] } }

Pie Charts

Pie charts are circular charts divided into sectors, illustrating numerical proportions. They are ideal for showing percentage or proportional data.

{ "type": "pie", "data": { "series": [{ "angleKey": "value", "data": [{ "label": "Apples", "value": 50 }, { "label": "Oranges", "value": 50 }] }] } }

Other packages similar to ag-charts-core

chart.js

Chart.js is a popular open-source library for creating simple yet flexible charts. It offers a variety of chart types and is known for its ease of use and integration. Compared to ag-charts-core, Chart.js is more lightweight but may not offer the same level of customization and advanced features.

d3

D3.js is a powerful JavaScript library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations in web browsers. It uses HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3 is more complex and flexible than ag-charts-core, allowing for highly customized visualizations, but it requires a steeper learning curve.

highcharts

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to web sites or web applications. It is similar to ag-charts-core in terms of feature richness and customization options, but Highcharts is a commercial product with licensing fees for commercial use.

README

Core Charting Library

🌐 Website • 📖 Documentation • 📊 Gallery

AG Charts is a fully-featured and highly customizable canvas-based Core Charting library. It delivers outstanding performance and has no third-party dependencies.

📖 Overview

Table of Contents

• 📖 Overview
  • Chart Types
  • Features
  • Financial Charts
  • Map Charts
• ⚡️ Quick Start
  • Installation
  • Setup
• 🤝 Support
  • Enterprise Support
  • Bug Reports
  • Questions
  • Contributing
• ⚠️ License

AG Charts is available in two versions: Community & Enterprise.

• ag-charts-community is free, available under the MIT license, and comes with core series types, such as Pie, Area, Bar, Scatter and Bubble in addition to all of the key features expected from a Core charting library, including Accessibility, Tooltips, Themes, Markers, Legends, Axis Types and Secondary Axes.
• ag-charts-enterprise is available under a commercial license and comes with additional series types, such as Maps, Sankey, Radar, and Waterfall Charts as well as advanced interactivity features, like Animations, Context Menus, Zooming, Navigators, Synchronization and much more, including Financial Charts.

Features & Chart Types

Chart Types

AG Charts offers 20+ Core Chart types, each of which are fully customisable:

Chart Type	AG Charts Community	AG Charts Enterprise
Bar	✅	✅
Line	✅	✅
Area	✅	✅
Scatter	✅	✅
Bubble	✅	✅
Pie	✅	✅
Donut	✅	✅
Combination	✅	✅
Box Plot	❌	✅
Candlestick	❌	✅
OHLC	❌	✅
Heatmap	❌	✅
Histogram	❌	✅
Nightingale	❌	✅
Radar Line	❌	✅
Radar Area	❌	✅
Radial Column	❌	✅
Radial Bar	❌	✅
Range Area	❌	✅
Range Bar	❌	✅
Sunburst	❌	✅
Treemap	❌	✅
Waterfall	❌	✅
Sankey	❌	✅
Chord	❌	✅

Features

AG Charts Core Charting Library comes with every feature you'd expect:

Feature	AG Charts Community	AG Charts Enterprise
Accessibility	✅	✅
Localisation	✅	✅
Series Highlighting	✅	✅
Tooltips	✅	✅
Touch	✅	✅
Cross Lines	✅	✅
Legend	✅	✅
Stylers	✅	✅
Series Markers	✅	✅
Animations	❌	✅
Context Menu	❌	✅
Crosshairs & Band Highlight	❌	✅
Navigator	❌	✅
Synchronization	❌	✅
Zoom	❌	✅
Annotations	❌	✅
Error Bars	❌	✅

ℹ️ Note:

Visit the Pricing page for a full comparison.

Financial Charts

Build interactive financial charts featuring advanced annotations with minimal configuration, all you need to do is provide your data:

const options = {
    data: getData(),
};

AgCharts.createFinancialChart(options);

Once created, users will have a Financial Chart that they can interact with and add annotations to.

The default chart type is Candlestick, with additional types like OHLC and Line for versatile data visualisation.

Maps

The Maps Series let you visualise geographic data in different ways.

Maps can display data using Shapes, Lines and Marker series:

const options = {
    topology: topology,
    series: [
        {
            type: 'map-shape',
            data: pacific,
            idKey: 'name',
            title: 'Pacific',
        },
        // ...
    ],
    legend: {
        enabled: true,
    },
    // ...
};

⚡️ Quick Start

AG Charts are easy to set up - all you need to do is provide your data and series type along with any other chart options. Read on for vanilla Core installation instructions, or refer to our framework-specific guides for React, Angular and Vue.

Installation

$ npm install ag-charts-core

Setup

• Provide a Container

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>AG Charts Quick Start</title>
        <!--  Core Charts Core Library -->
        <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ag-charts-core/dist/umd/ag-charts-core.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <!-- Container for Chart -->
        <div id="myChart"></div>
        <!-- Charts configuration file -->
        <script src="index.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

• Instantiate the Core Chart

// Chart Options
const options = {};

// Create Chart
const chart = agCharts.AgCharts.create(options);

• Define Chart Data and Series

// Chart Options
const options = {
    // Container: HTML Element to hold the chart
    container: document.getElementById('myChart'),
    // Data: Data to be displayed in the chart
    data: [
        { month: 'Jan', avgTemp: 2.3, iceCreamSales: 162000 },
        { month: 'Mar', avgTemp: 6.3, iceCreamSales: 302000 },
        { month: 'May', avgTemp: 16.2, iceCreamSales: 800000 },
        { month: 'Jul', avgTemp: 22.8, iceCreamSales: 1254000 },
        { month: 'Sep', avgTemp: 14.5, iceCreamSales: 950000 },
        { month: 'Nov', avgTemp: 8.9, iceCreamSales: 200000 },
    ],
    // Series: Defines which chart type and data to use
    series: [{ type: 'bar', xKey: 'month', yKey: 'iceCreamSales' }],
};

ℹ️ Note:

For more information on building Core Charts with AG Charts, refer to our Documentation.

🤝 Support

Enterprise Support

AG Charts Enterprise customers have access to dedicated support via ZenDesk, which is monitored by our support & engineering teams.

Bug Reports

If you have found a bug, please report it in this repository's issues section.

Questions

Look for similar problems on StackOverflow using the ag-charts tag. If nothing seems related, post a new message there. Please do not use GitHub issues to ask questions.

Contributing

AG Charts is developed by a team of co-located developers in London. If you want to join the team send your application to [e-mail].

⚠️ License

ag-charts-community is licensed under the MIT license.

ag-charts-enterprise has a Commercial license.

See the LICENSE file for more info.

AG Grid

AG Grid is our flagship product, a fully-featured and highly customizable Core Data Grid. It delivers outstanding performance, has no third-party dependencies and comes with support for React, Angular and Vue.

AG Charts is used within AG Grid to power the Integrated Charting feature.

Learn more at ag-grid.com

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