Apache ECharts is a free open-source charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript. ECharts provides a powerful, interactive charting and data visualization library and framework for web browser, mobile App and backend usage.
Description
ECharts is a free, powerful charting and visualization library offering an easy way of adding intuitive, interactive, and highly customizable charts to your commercial products.
It is written in pure JavaScript and based on zrender, which is a whole new lightweight canvas library.
Currently (May, 2019) ECharts is an incubator project of Apache Software Foundation. Please check its incubator status here
History
ECharts (a contraction of Enterprise Charts) was previously a commercial charting solution originally intended to address the report need of the Company's various business systems, such as Baidu Promotion (凤巢), Advertising Manager (广告管家).
Previously we used Flash to fulfill those needs, but the problem is, due to Baidu's highly clear-cut division of labor, there is a special team in charge of Flash. As a result, everything – from the design of data interface to personalized needs - has to be negotiated and agreed upon, leaving little room for front-end engineers to control completely. Moreover, there is no Flash common to all the scenes in a system. Worse still, Steve Jobs, the co-founder and then CEO of Apple Inc., insisted that Apple wouldn't allow Flash on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. For all these reasons, and given the soaring popularity of html5, we decided to try something else. Therefore in early 2012 Lin Feng (Kener), the then front-end technical director of Baidu Promotion, tried to make charts via Canvas in the Data Platform Project of Baidu Promotion. He wrote a whole new lightweight Canvas library ZRender, which is actually the prototype of ECharts, albeit miles from the one in front of you now.
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