Instant Highcharts

By Cyril Grandjean

In Detail

Nowadays, a lot of systems and tools are developed using web technologies. Customers need to analyze their data using charts on their computer or their mobile device. With the Highcharts library, it is possible to create highly customizable and interactive charts on any computer or a mobile device without installing any plugins.

Instant Highcharts is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a step-by-step approach, which will help you to take advantage of the powerful features of Highcharts. With Instant Highcharts, you will learn everything you need to know to create your own dynamic charts with your own data inside your web application.

Instant Highcharts will present you with different features available with Highcharts, and helps you to create your own chart. You will start with Highcharts installation and then learn to create your own customized column, bar, area, and pie charts with your data. You will learn to add some interactive functionality such as the zoom feature or to export your chart into a printable format. We will also give you tips that will help you to improve your skills with Highcharts.

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. Instant Highcharts has a step-by-step approach to help you understand the core concepts of different types of Highcharts and create your own customized charts.

Who this book is for

Instant Highcharts is for web developers who are new to the Highcharts library and looking to create their own charts in their webpages. You should have some experience with the JavaScript library. You should know how to develop a server-side language such as PHP to create dynamic Highcharts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Jul 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781849697552

Cyril Grandjean

Cyril Grandjean graduated from the school Supinfo (France), and from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. He is currently working for the company Ausy as a software engineer. During his professional experience, he has mainly developed web projects in PHP and Java. He also spends some of his spare time developing applications in C# or mobile applications. On his website http://www.cyril-grandjean.co.uk.He also writes some articles about software development. During his past job for the company Distrame, he participated in the development of a solution called Efficacenergie, which measures the energy consumption (electricity, water, gas, and so on) of a building. By accessing a web interface developed with the Ext-JS library, customers can analyze their own energy consumption through customizable charts developed with the Highcharts library.

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1. Instant Highcharts

So, what is Highcharts?

Installation

Step 1 – what do I need?

Step 2 – downloading Highcharts

Step 3 – Highcharts installation

Step 4 – your first chart

And that's it

Quick start – setting up the main sections of Highcharts

Step 1 – setting the title and subtitle

Step 2 – setting the credits

Step 3 – setting the series

Step 4 – setting the axes, plot lines, and plot bands

Step 5 – setting the tool tip

Step 6 – setting the legend

Step 7 – final code

Top 4 features you need to know about

Creating a line chart with a time axis and two Y axes

Creating a stacked bar chart

Creating a pie chart

Creating dynamic charts

People and places you should get to know

Official sites

JSFiddle tool

Articles and tutorials

Community

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About the Author

Cyril Grandjean is graduated from the school Supinfo (France) and from Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom). He is currently working for company Ausy as a software engineer. During his professional