Checkout the documentation site at http://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/
Checkout this lightening talk that gives you an overview of Chartist in 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdYzPhOB_c8
Chartist.js is a simple responsive charting library built with SVG. There are hundreds of nice charting libraries already out there, but they are either:
- not responsive
- use the wrong technologies for illustration (canvas)
- are not flexible enough while keeping the configuration simple
- are not friendly to your own code
- are not friendly to designers
- have unnecessary dependencies to monolithic libraries
- more annoying things
That's why we have started Chartist.js and our goal is to solve all of the above issues.
Chartist's goal is to provide a simple, lightweight and non-intrusive library to responsive craft charts on your website. It's important to understand that one of the main intentions of Chartist.js is to rely on standards rather than providing a own solution to the problem which is is already solved by the standard. We need to leverage the power of the browsers today and say good bye to the idea of solving all problems ourselves.
Chartist works with inline-SVG and therefore leverages the power of the DOM to provide parts of its functionality. This also means that Chartist is not providing it's own event handling, labels, behaviors and anything else that can just be done with plain HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The single and only responsibility of Chartist is to help you drawing "Simple responsive Charts" using inline-SVG in the DOM, CSS to style and JavaScript to provide an API for configuring your charts.
You can visit this Site http://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/ which is in fact a build of the current project. We are still developing and constantly add features but you can already use Chartist.js in your projects as we have reached a stable and reliable state already.
We are currently still heavily developing in order to make Chartist.js better. Your help is needed! Please contribute to the project if you like the idea and the concept and help us to bring nice looking responsive open-source charts to the masses.
- Jasmine Tests!
- Documentation: JSDoc, Getting started documentation and landing page
- Better accessibility using ARIA and other optimizations
- Better interfaces to the library (i.e. jQuery with data-* attributes for configuration), Angular.js directive etc.
- Richer SASS / CSS framework
- Other charts types (spider etc.)
We are looking for people who share the idea of having a simple, flexible charting library that is responsive and uses modern and future-proof technologies. The goal of this project is to create a responsive charting library where developers have their joy in using it and designers love it because of the designing flexibility they have.
Contribute if you like the Chartist Guy!