joyent-portal/spikes/graphs-fe/plotly/readme.md

Plotly

Adding plotly through npm and created a plotly graph components Running three different graph types of the same data on the same page

summary

Pros:

• simple and complete api for static graphs

Cons:

• very slow on consecutive renders (if they happen in short intervals)
• lacking api for real time graphs
• restyle or recalc are only useful for style changes
• extendTraces API is not documented and not obvious