Learning Highcharts Joe (Joseph) Kuan Author

This book is both for beginners and advanced web developers who need to create interactive charts for their web applications. It primarily targets JavaScript Web developers who want to use the Highcharts library to prepare interactive and professional-quality charts and graphs for their applications quickly and easily. Prior experience with JavaScript is assumed.A complete practical and comprehensive tutorial with clear and step-by-step instructions along with many examples. It’s packed with examples, code samples and practical tips in a no-nonsense way.The book starts off with an introduction of Highcharts and demonstrates usage of its rich set of options. This is followed by an introduction of each type of basic chart, beginning with simple illustrations and ending with more artistic and productive additions to the charts. The book then guides you how to use the Highcharts API and events handling which are important to build interactive applications. It then goes on to show you how to apply Highcharts onto a popular AJAX Framework or even jQuery Mobile and Ext JS. Finally the book shows readers how to setup Highcharts running on server side. Learning Highcharts aims to teach you everything you need to know about Highcharts, and take the advanced leap from Flash to JavaScript, with this extremely productive and effective Charting software available, thus helping you build basic charts and even multiple series and axes charts. The book also shows you the flexibility of Highcharts and how to create other special charts. The programming side of APIs and event handling will benefit the readers in building advanced web applications with Highcharts. The book also guides readers on how to integrate Highcharts with popular frameworks such as jQuery, jQuery Mobile and Ext JS. By the end of the book, you should be able to use Highcharts to suit your web page or application needs.Learning Highcharts is not another book cloned from the Highcharts online manual. It’s a comprehensive tutorial with clear and practical examples. This book follows a step by step approach towards making artistic, presentable, or professional style charts and other types of charts that you won’t find elsewhere. It also shows you how to integrate Highcharts with other popular frameworks, such as jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and ExtJS and even how to run it on the server side.