Instant highcharts / Cyril Grandjean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grandjean, Cyril.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Client/server computing.

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Grandjean Cyril: Cyril Grandjean is graduated from the school Supinfo (France) and from Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom). He is currently working for the company NQI as a software engineer. During his professional experience, he has mainly developed web projects in PHP and Java. He also spends some of his spare time developing web or mobile applications. On his website http: //www. cyril-grandjean. fr He also writes some articles about software development. During his past job for the company Distrame, he participated in the development of a solution called Efficacenergie, which measures the energy consumption (electricity, water, gas, and so on) of a building. By accessing a web interface developed with the Ext-JS library, customers can analyze their own energy consumption through customizable charts developed with the Highcharts library.

Summary:

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. Instant Highcharts Starter has a step-by-step approach to help you understand the core concepts of different types of Highcharts and create your own customized charts.Instant Highcharts Starter is for web developers who are new to the Highcharts library and looking to create their own charts in their webpages. You should have some experience with the JavaScript library. You should know how to develop a server-side language such as PHP to create dynamic Highcharts.

Contents:

Intro

Instant Highcharts

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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1. Instant Highcharts

So, what is Highcharts?

Installation

Step 1 - what do I need?

Step 2 - downloading Highcharts

Step 3 - Highcharts installation

Step 4 - your first chart

And that's it

Quick start - setting up the main sections of Highcharts

Step 1 - setting the title and subtitle

Step 2 - setting the credits

Step 3 - setting the series

Step 4 - setting the axes, plot lines, and plot bands

Step 5 - setting the tool tip

Step 6 - setting the legend

Step 7 - final code

Top 4 features you need to know about

Creating a line chart with a time axis and two Y axes

Creating a stacked bar chart

Creating a pie chart

Creating dynamic charts

People and places you should get to know

Official sites

JSFiddle tool

Articles and tutorials

Community

Blogs

Twitter.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781849697552

1849697558

OCLC:

855897486