Recipe 18Creating Charts and Graphs with Highcharts

Problem

Our sales team has developed an affiliate program for our company’s shopping site. We’ve been tasked with developing an interface for our affiliates, and we want to show their data in a visual and attractive way. However, we need to ensure that these charts are viewable on mobile devices as well as desktops.

Ingredients

  • jQuery

  • Highcharts[43]

  • QEDServer (for our test server)[44]

Solution

The Highcharts JavaScript library lets us easily create interactive and readable charts and graphs. It works across platforms, and since it runs on the client’s machine, it doesn’t require any special configuration on our servers. The interface built into Highcharts is highly interactive and customizable, ...

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