Plottable.js

Overview

Plottable.js is a library of chart components for creating flexible, custom charts for websites. It is built on top of D3.js and provides higher-level pieces, like plots, gridlines, and axes. As such, it's easier to quickly build charts than with D3, and the charts are much more flexible than standard-template charts provided by charting libraries. You can think of Plottable as a "D3 for Charts" - it is not a charting library but a library of chart components. Check out examples of Plottable on our website's examples page.

Philosophy

Plottable's core philosophy is "Composition over Configuration", so a lot of the API flexibility is in choosing which Components to use, and how to arrange them in Tables, rather than setting high-level properties on the charts. If you find you need a feature that doesn't exist, consider writing a new Component that implements the functionality. This way, you can get your custom functionality and still benefit from the rest of the library.

Plottable.js is being developed by Palantir Technologies. It's developed in Typescript, and released in Javascript.

Quick Start

• Get Plottable:
  • Using Bower: bower install --save plottable.
  • Via cdnjs.
  • Downloading plottable.zip.
• Check out examples, read the tutorials, and visit the website.

Upgrading to v1.0.0

If you are upgrading from a pre-v1.0.0 version of Plottable to v1.0.0 or later, please use the Upgrade Guide on the wiki.

We Want To Help!

If you run into any problems using Plottable, please let us know. We want Plottable to be easy-to-use, so if you are getting confused, it is our fault, not yours. Create an issue and we'll be happy to help you out, or drop by our Gitter room.

Development

• Clone the repo
• Install global dependencies sudo npm install grunt grunt-cli typescript -g
• Install local dependencies npm install
• Run grunt and it will spin up a server (pointed at localhost:9999) and begin compiling the typescript code

Contributing

• Write your code
• Add tests for new functionality, and please add some quicktests too
• Run grunt test and verify it completes with no warnings or failures
• Commit new files, including the updated built files like plottable.js and plottable.d.ts
• Fill out the Personal or Corporate Contributor License Agreement and send it to [email protected]
  • You can do this easily on a Mac by using the Tools - Annotate - Signature feature in Preview.
• Submit a pull request