Goodbye D3, Hello ECharts - Clement Ho

If you need data visualization on the frontend, most developers will tell you to use D3. D3 is a great library but it may not always be the best approach for your product. D3 provides a lot of low level tools for visualization but most products don’t really need to build from the ground up. At GitLab, we had a hard time reaching velocity with D3 on the frontend, especially with our smaller team. We researched a lot of other tools and found ECharts to be a great replacement. In this talk, I will share about our journey, how we increased velocity with ECharts and how you can use ECharts for your next data visualization.
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Clement is a frontend engineering manager at GitLab for the monitor stage of the DevOps lifecycle. He is a maintainer of GitLab's frontend code and is currently building his team in becoming charting experts at GitLab and in the industry. Prior to GitLab, he worked at HP and received a CIO Excellence award. He also had a brief stint as a cofounder of a startup.

[sebastianjuara]

god damn it the fact that the slides are not synced really grinds my gears

[nits]

The amount of independence that D3Js provides for data visualization is exceptional. Its like fluid capable of taking any shape as per requirement.

[hfe]

im impressed with this library so easy and lot of examples, thumbs up

[balwant]

EChart library doesn't have an export to Excel option. Is there any way to achieve this?

[ayasswain]

e-charts is better than D3.js. I am using it currently and it is a cool library.

[JS-qusj]

I hate such sayings like "goodbye A, hello B", because they always sound like you have no respect for the work of other software.