Analytics dashboard for my Phoenix LiveView app -- pie charts, bar charts, etc -- what is the best library to use?

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Apologies for asking such an open-ended question, but I’m just wondering what the best tools are for building a basic analytics dashboard with the basics – just a half dozen or so simple charts. So far I’ve come across PlotEx, but it seems to be focused on time-series data, which is not my use-case.

Also, I’d prefer something with a gentle learning curve – I found D3 a bit to mind-bending for me when I last looked at it a few years ago.

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Hmm, seems like everything chart-related uses SVG and JavaScript. I guess Google Charts is the place to start.

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You also have contex. It doesn’t require javascript (produces the SVG server side). Works nicely with LiveView too.

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You have Context, Vegalite (thanks to the livebook team), or any chart library via hooks. PhoenixLivedashboard does it using uplot. I’ve used uplot, Apache E-Charts and VegaLite with success.

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