A recent web visualization project forced me to explore some data visualization libraries for JavaScript. Below are a few I narrowed down during the development phase.
Leaflet
Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing around 38 KB of JS, it has all the mapping features most developers will ever need.
Although Leaflet is lightweight, and focuses on a core set of features, an easy way to extend its functionality is to use third-party plugins. There are hundreds of nice leaflet plugins you can choose from to extend the functionality of Leaflet. This is one of my favorite mapping libraries and which I’ll surely cover in another post.
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