Nicholas Terwoord is a software developer, professional geek, and graduate from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Honors). When not developing software, which is not often, he can be found helping his wife, Amanda, with her business, or more likely working his way through a growing list of distractions on Steam. He can be reached at http://nt3r.com. He is happily employed at Willet Inc., a company in Kitchener, Ontario that develops Second Funnel, a marketing solution for brands, and online retailers. More information can be found at http://secondfunnel.com.

About This Book

Create amazing interactive charts that update in realtime

Make charts that work wherever you go: phone or desktop; online or offline

Learn how to extend, and enhance Highcharts to design and develop charts easily

Learn how you can integrate charts into just about any project for analyzing statistical data

Who This Book Is For

"Highcharts Cookbook" is intended for JavaScript developers or other web programmers looking to add charting functionality to their web applications. Some familiarity with web application development would be helpful but is not required.

What You Will Learn

Create charts in a variety of display formats

Process data from different remote or local sources with AJAX and Websockets

Create simple polls

Render charts for offline usage or e-mail

Integrate Highcharts with existing frontend and backend frameworks

Connect Highcharts to other data sources such as git for interesting visualizations

Display simple statistical data

Extend the Highcharts library for more reusable, versatile charts

In Detail

Highcharts is a JavaScript library that enables web developers to create a wide range of different, highly customized charts. Highcharts easily integrates with existing JavaScript frameworks and is simple enough to make a column chart in a few lines of code, but flexible enough to handle more complex charting scenarios such as viewing multiple chart types with different data sources on a multitude of devices and form-factors.

"Highcharts Cookbook" is a practical guide that provides you with clear, step-by-step recipes to create dynamic, functional charts in your web applications using Highcharts. With "Highcharts Cookbook", you will create and design dynamic and versatile charts in different scenarios.

"Highcharts Cookbook" through its wide array of recipes will walk you through everything you need to know about Highcharts and will enable you to unleash its full potential in your web applications quickly and easily.

You will learn how to integrate Highcharts with different frontend and backend libraries such as ExtJS, jQuery, and the Yii framework with some examples in Python, PHP, and NodeJS. You will also cover how to handle user interactions like form input and mouse events, how to fetch remote data in CSV, XML, and JSON format, and how to render charts for offline usage. If you want to learn the different ways you can leverage the power of Highcharts to create, integrate and extend its features in your application, then this book is for you.