Choose when you need a general-purpose canvas chart library with a larger ecosystem and are willing to add a financial plugin.
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
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- JavaScript
- MIT
financial charting
A lightweight HTML5 canvas financial charting library for interactive charts, focused on performance and ease of integration.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
Choose when you need a general-purpose canvas chart library with a larger ecosystem and are willing to add a financial plugin.
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
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The most advanced amCharts charting library for JavaScript and TypeScript apps.
Choose when building a React app and wanting financial chart components with D3, despite the lack of recent maintenance.
Charts dedicated to finance.
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π Interactive JavaScript Charts built on SVG
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Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
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Smoothie Charts: smooooooth JavaScript charts for realtime streaming data
Choose when you only need zoomable time series line charts, especially for large datasets, and don't need candlesticks.
Interactive visualizations of time series using JavaScript and the HTML canvas tag
These projects were analysed and named lightweight-charts among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric β how lightweight-charts rates them is a separate judgement, made when lightweight-charts is analysed in its own right.
calls lightweight-charts βChoose it for canvas-rendered financial line/candlestick charts with a narrower, trading-focused feature set.β
JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive real-time graphs
calls lightweight-charts βUse for high-frequency financial candlestick charts on canvas; purpose-built for trading, not other chart types.β
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
calls lightweight-charts βSpecialized financial charting library; choose for lightweight candlestick and price charts.β
Apache ECharts is a powerful, interactive charting and data visualization library for browser
calls lightweight-charts βChoose when you need high-performance financial charts with canvas rendering and specialized finance features.β
Simple responsive charts
calls lightweight-charts βChoose for financial time-series and candlestick charts needing optimized canvas rendering, but it is narrower than general charting.β
π±πAn elegant, interactive and flexible charting library for mobile.