One of the first steps towards being able to send charts to others is rendering the chart in a static format. While Highcharts does make it possible to render charts using its Content Distribution Network (CDN), this recipe will cover how we can render the charts on our own, which is especially important if we don't want our data being made available to the public.
To set up a basic page and install jQuery and Highcharts, refer to the Getting ready section of the Creating your first chart recipe from Chapter 1, Getting Started with Highcharts.
As the bower installation does not include some important scripts, we'll need to download Highcharts normally by performing the following steps:
Visit the Highcharts website and download Highcharts from http://www.highcharts.com/download.
Extract the contents of the downloaded zip file to a folder called
Highcharts
.We will also need to install and run PhantomJS.