Following up the discussion in the last section, choosing a library to create charts appears to be the most logical choice. There are a lot of popular libraries to choose from. Out of these, the most popular are as follows:

• D3 (https://d3js.org/)
• Chart.js (http://www.chartjs.org/)
• Highcharts (https://www.highcharts.com/)

D3 is more of a general purpose library, and even though it's really great at making charts, there is still a lot of boilerplate code that has to be written to get a simple chart running.

Highcharts solves this problem by providing an easy configuration-based API that lets us create rich charts with just a few lines of code, but it comes with a very restricted license. This essentially means that any commercial applications are out of the question unless you get a paid subscription.

Chart.js gives us the best of both worlds. It provides us with an easy-to-use API to make rich, interactive charts and comes with an MIT license, which is very open and unrestrictive, both for personal as well as commercial use.