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We used ECharts to build our charting library at Evidence and it’s been a great experience overall (https://evidence.dev https://evidence.dev). We started with
by hughess 3y ago
We used ECharts to build our charting library at Evidence and it’s been a great experience overall (https://evidence.dev https://evidence.dev).
We started with D3 and a few other tools, but felt that we get a lot more out of the box with ECharts, like interactivity and an events API. ECharts is also a lot more extensible than people give it credit for.
If anyone is curious, we documented the process of selecting a charting library after assessing several options: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/136 https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/136
- Jgrubb 3y agoYes, Evidence was my intro to ECharts. I’m more on the building datasets side of things lately, but on the occasions that I do need to produce some analyses Evidence is the model I want to use. Thank you.
- alisonatwork 3y agoWe're trialing ECharts on a couple dashboards at the moment and it's improved velocity a lot over previous D3-based approaches. This has been my experience in other companies too, where a purist developer will come along and start building yet another custom D3 solution which takes so long to deliver that the users just build a pipeline to dump the data and hack their own charts together in a different tool instead. My feeling is that D3 just isn't worth it unless you are building a bespoke visualization for a unique dataset. For most everything else, ECharts is so much faster to deliver value to the users. The ease-of-use of ECharts reminds me of Highcharts back in the day, except it's free! I'm not sure it has a very strong support network behind it, but perhaps that will improve as more popular tools switch (Gitlab, Superset etc).