Why Highcharts?

Highcharts offers very appealing and professional-looking 2D/3D charts on the market. It is a product that stands out by paying attention to details, not only on the presentation side, but also in other areas that are described later on. It was developed by a Norwegian company called Highsoft AS, created and founded by Torstein Hønsi, and released in late 2009. Highcharts is not their first product, but is by far their best-selling one.

Highcharts and JavaScript frameworks

Although Highcharts is built with the JavaScript framework library, it is implemented in such a way that it doesn't totally rely on one particular framework. Highcharts is packaged with adapters to make its interfaces to frameworks pluggable.

As a result, Highcharts ...

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