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Learning Highcharts 4

Learning Highcharts 4 - Second Edition

By : Joe Kuan
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Learning Highcharts 4

Learning Highcharts 4

4.5 (2)
By: Joe Kuan
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Overview of this book

The book is aimed at all levels of readers. Beginners can learn the basic configurations and step-by-step approaches in creating charts or Highcharts cloud. For intermediate and advanced readers, the book explores the APIs, events, server-side operations and plugins.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Web Charts
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1. Web Charts
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A short history of web charting
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The rise of JavaScript and HTML5
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JavaScript charts on the market
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Why Highcharts?
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Highcharts – a quick tutorial
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Summary
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2. Highcharts Configurations
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2. Highcharts Configurations
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Configuration structure
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Understanding Highcharts' layout
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Framing the chart with axes
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Revisiting the series config
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Exploring PlotOptions
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Styling tooltips
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Animating charts
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Expanding colors with gradients
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Zooming data with the drilldown feature
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Summary
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3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts
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3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts
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Introducing line charts
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Highlighting negative values and raising the base level
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Sketching an area chart
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Mixing line and area series
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Combining the scatter and area series
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Summary
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4. Bar and Column Charts
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4. Bar and Column Charts
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Introducing column charts
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Introducing bar charts
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Constructing a mirror chart
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Converting a single bar chart into a horizontal gauge chart
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Sticking the charts together
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Summary
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5. Pie Charts
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5. Pie Charts
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Understanding the relationship between chart, pie, and series
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Plotting simple pie charts – single series
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Plotting multiple pies in a chart – multiple series
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Preparing a donut chart – multiple series
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Building a chart with multiple series types
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Summary
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6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts
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6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts
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Loading gauge, polar, and range charts
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Plotting a speedometer gauge chart
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Plotting the solid gauge chart
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Converting a spline chart to a polar/radar chart
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Plotting range charts with market index data
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Using a radial gradient on a gauge chart
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Summary
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7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts
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7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts
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The bubble chart
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Understanding the box plot chart
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The error bar chart
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Summary
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8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts
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8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts
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Constructing a waterfall chart
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Constructing a funnel chart
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Joining both waterfall and funnel charts
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Plotting a commercial pyramid chart
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Exploring a heatmap chart with inflation data
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Experimenting with dataClasses and nullColor options in a heatmap
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Summary
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9. 3D Charts
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9. 3D Charts
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What a Highcharts 3D chart is and isn't
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Experimenting with 3D chart orientation
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Configuring the 3D chart background
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Plotting the column, pie, donut, and scatter series in 3D charts
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Navigating with 3D charts
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Summary
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10. Highcharts APIs
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10. Highcharts APIs
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Understanding the Highcharts class model
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Using the Highcharts APIs
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Summary
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11. Highcharts Events
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11. Highcharts Events
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Introducing Highcharts events
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Portfolio history example
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Stock growth chart example
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Summary
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12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile
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12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile
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A short introduction to jQuery Mobile
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Understanding mobile page structure
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Understanding page initialization
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Linking between mobile pages
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Highcharts in touch-screen environments
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Integrating Highcharts and jQuery Mobile using an Olympic medals table application
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Drilling down for data with the point click event
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Building a dynamic content dialog with the point click event
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Applying the gesturechange (pinch actions) event to a pie chart
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Summary
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13. Highcharts and Ext JS
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13. Highcharts and Ext JS
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A short introduction to Sencha Ext JS
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A quick tour of Ext JS components
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The Highcharts extension
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A commercial RIA with Highcharts – Profiler
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Summary
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14. Server-side Highcharts
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14. Server-side Highcharts
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Running Highcharts on the server side
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Highcharts on the server side
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Running the Highcharts server script
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15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins
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15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins
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Highcharts export server – export.highcharts.com
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Highcharts Cloud Service
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Highcharts plugins
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Index
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Index

Chapter 14. Server-side Highcharts

The first edition of Learning Highcharts covered a number of approaches to run Highcharts on the server side. Since then, there has been significant development in this area. It turns out that Highcharts adopts PhantomJS (the headless webkit) for the server solution and PhantomJS/Batik for the server implementation in Java. We will also explore how we can create our own Highcharts server process using PhantomJS and how to use the official server-side script released by Highcharts.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Why we want to run Highcharts on the server side
  • Why PhantomJS and Batik are adopted by Highcharts
  • The basics of PhantomJS and Batik
  • Creating our own PhantomJS script to export charts
  • How to use the Highcharts server-side script in both command-line and server modes
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