Chapter 11. Running Highcharts on the Server Side
In this chapter, we will learn why it is desirable to run Highcharts on the server side and which techniques are available for use. We learn each of the techniques and demonstrate some of them from installation to producing a chart on the server side. Finally, a review of pros and cons of each approach is given.
Running Highcharts on the server side
Using Xvfb and web browsers (Unix solution)
Rhino and Batik (Java solution)
Node.js
/Node and Node-Highcharts (JavaScript solution)PhantomJS (headless webkit)
Comparison between the approaches