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Learn Chart.js

You're reading from   Learn Chart.js Create interactive visualizations for the Web with Chart.js 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789342482
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Technology Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chart.js - Quick Start 4. Creating Charts 5. Scales and Grid Configuration 6. Configuring Styles and Interactivity 7. Advanced Chart.js 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technology Fundamentals

This book assumes that you have a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are essential tools for creating visualizations with Chart.js. All examples in the book are written with JavaScript ES2015 or ES6. One of the goals of this chapter is to review the fundamental topics of these technologies. This includes JavaScript topics related to string, object, and array manipulation, the HTML document object model (DOM), basic JQuery, CSS selectors, and HTML canvas. You can, of course, skip these sections if you already feel comfortable with these technologies.

This chapter also describes popular data formats used in visualizations, such as CSV, XML, and JSON, and how to load, parse, and use external data files in these formats in your Web pages. You will also learn how to set up a small testing Web server to run files that load external resources...

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