bChart

bChart is a D3-based charting library. bChart provides a simple, clean and easy way to create SVG-style charts and to integrate to daily use web application.

The official documentation is bChart.org

Why bChart?

• D3-based
  • bChart is sitting on the top of D3 library.
  • It gives all the powers and flexibilities D3 provides and make it much simpler to create a visualization chart.
• Customizable
  • All charts' style can be easily customized without touch of CSS.
  • All charts' transition/animation can be customized (coming soon).
• Easy of use
  • Straight forward.
  • Chainable methods.
  • Easy API (coming soon).
  • AMD supportable.

Tutorial

1. Download the bChart.js (or bChart.min.js) and bChart.css (or bChart.min.css).

2. Load the scripts and CSS

    <!-- Load bChart.css -->
    <link href="/path/to/c3.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
   
    <!-- Load d3.js and bChart.js -->
    <script src="/path/to/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
    <script src="/path/to/bChart.min.js"></script>
   

3. Calling bChart selector to create a chart. For example, to create a Barchart:

    bChart.BarChart("#chart");
    
    //to change background of barchart: 
    bChart("#chart").background("color", "#ccc")
    
    //to load data:
    bChart("#chart").load([['data1', '45', '32', '15']]);
    
    //You can also chaining all these steps above together:
    bChart.BarChart("#chart").background("color", "#ccc").load([['data1', '45', '32', '15']]);
    
    //You can also asign a variable to the chart you create and reuse it in your code.
    var myBarChart = bChart("#chart");
    myBarChart.background("color", "#ccc").load([['data1', '45', '32', '15']]);
   

Example

1. Download or clone this git to your machine.
2. Traverse to example/nodejs folder.
3. Type in "node app.js" in your terminal.
4. Goto your browser and type in "localhost:3000/index.html" or "localhost:3000/indexAMD.html" for AMD support example.
5. You can go to mainUnAMD (main) and change any configuration you want to play with the charts.

Group

Coming soon.

Dependency

D3.js