# asciichart
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Console ASCII line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers) with no dependencies. This code is absolutely free for any usage, you just do whatever the fuck you want.
<img width="789" alt="Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1294454/22818709/9f14e1c2-ef7f-11e6-978f-34b5b595fb63.png">
## Usage
### NodeJS
```sh
npm install asciichart
```
```javascript
var asciichart = require ('asciichart')
var s0 = new Array (120)
for (var i = 0; i < s0.length; i++)
s0[i] = 15 * Math.sin (i * ((Math.PI * 4) / s0.length))
console.log (asciichart.plot (s0))
```
### Browsers
```html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>asciichart</title>
<script src="asciichart.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var s0 = new Array (120)
for (var i = 0; i < s0.length; i++)
s0[i] = 15 * Math.sin (i * ((Math.PI * 4) / s0.length))
console.log (asciichart.plot (s0))
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
```
### Options
The width of the chart will always equal the length of data series. The height and range are determined automatically.
```javascript
var s0 = new Array (120)
for (var i = 0; i < s0.length; i++)
s0[i] = 15 * Math.sin (i * ((Math.PI * 4) / s0.length))
console.log (asciichart.plot (s0))
```
<img width="788" alt="Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1294454/22818807/313cd636-ef80-11e6-9d1a-7a90abdb38c8.png">
The output can be configured by passing a second parameter to the `plot (series, config)` function. The following options are supported:
```javascript
var config = {
offset: 3, // axis offset from the left (min 2)
padding: ' ', // padding string for label formatting (can be overrided)
height: 10, // any height you want
// the label format function applies default padding
format: function (x, i) { return (padding + x.toFixed (2)).slice (-padding.length) }
}
```
### Scale To Desired Height
<img width="791" alt="Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1294454/22818711/9f166128-ef7f-11e6-9748-b23b151974ed.png">
```javascript
var s = []
for (var i = 0; i < 120; i++)
s[i] = 15 * Math.cos (i * ((Math.PI * 8) / 120)) // values range from -15 to +15
console.log (asciichart.plot (s, { height: 6 })) // this rescales the graph to ±3 lines
```
<img width="787" alt="Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1294454/22825525/dd295294-ef9e-11e6-93d1-0beb80b93133.png">
### Auto-range
```javascript
var s2 = new Array (120)
s2[0] = Math.round (Math.random () * 15)
for (i = 1; i < s2.length; i++)
s2[i] = s2[i - 1] + Math.round (Math.random () * (Math.random () > 0.5 ? 2 : -2))
console.log (asciichart.plot (s2))
```
<img width="788" alt="Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1294454/22818710/9f157a74-ef7f-11e6-893a-f7494b5abef1.png">
### Multiple Series
```javascript
var s2 = new Array (120)
s2[0] = Math.round (Math.random () * 15)
for (i = 1; i < s2.length; i++)
s2[i] = s2[i - 1] + Math.round (Math.random () * (Math.random () > 0.5 ? 2 : -2))
var s3 = new Array (120)
s3[0] = Math.round (Math.random () * 15)
for (i = 1; i < s3.length; i++)
s3[i] = s3[i - 1] + Math.round (Math.random () * (Math.random () > 0.5 ? 2 : -2))
console.log (asciichart.plot ([ s2, s3 ]))
```
<img width="788" alt="Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/27967284/79398277-5322da80-7f91-11ea-8da8-e47976b76c12.png">
### Colors
```javascript
var arr1 = new Array (120)
arr1[0] = Math.round (Math.random () * 15)
for (i = 1; i < arr1.length; i++)
arr1[i] = arr1[i - 1] + Math.round (Math.random () * (Math.random () > 0.5 ? 2 : -2))
var arr2 = new Array (120)
arr2[0] = Math.round (Math.random () * 15)
for (i = 1; i < arr2.length; i++)
arr2[i] = arr2[i - 1] + Math.round (Math.random () * (Math.random () > 0.5 ? 2 : -2))
var arr3 = new Array (120)
arr3[0] = Math.round (Math.random () * 15)
for (i = 1; i < arr3.length; i++)
arr3[i] = arr3[i - 1] + Math.round (Math.random () * (Math.random () > 0.5 ? 2 : -2))
var arr4 = new Array (120)
arr4[0] = Math.round (Math.random () * 15)
for (i = 1; i < arr4.length; i++)
arr4[i] = arr4[i - 1] + Math.round (Math.random () * (Math.random () > 0.5 ? 2 : -2))
var config = {
colors: [
asciichart.blue,
asciichart.green,
asciichart.default, // default color
undefined, // equivalent to default
]
}
console.log (asciichart.plot([ arr1, arr2, arr3, arr4 ], config))
```
<img width="788" alt="Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/27967284/79398700-51a5e200-7f92-11ea-9048-8dbdeeb60830.png">
### See Also
A util by [madnight](https://github.com/madnight) for drawing Bitcoin/Ether/altcoin charts in command-line console: [bitcoin-chart-cli](https://github.com/madnight/bitcoin-chart-cli).

### Ports
Special thx to all who helped port it to other languages, great stuff!
- [Python port](https://pypi.org/project/asciichartpy) included!
- Java: [ASCIIGraph](https://github.com/MitchTalmadge/ASCIIGraph), ported by [MitchTalmadge](https://github.com/MitchTalmadge). If you're a Java-person, check it out!
- Go: [asciigraph](https://github.com/guptarohit/asciigraph), ported by [guptarohit](https://github.com/guptarohit), Go people! )
- Haskell: [asciichart](https://github.com/madnight/asciichart), ported by [madnight](https://github.com/madnight) to Haskell world!
- Ruby: [ascii_chart](https://github.com/zhustec/ascii_chart), ported by [zhustec](https://github.com/zhustec)!
- Elixir: [asciichart](https://github.com/sndnv/asciichart), ported by [sndv](https://github.com/sndnv)!
- Perl: [App::AsciiChart](https://github.com/vti/app-asciichart), ported by [vti](https://github.com/vti)!
- C: [plot](https://github.com/annacrombie/plot), ported by [annacrombie](https://github.com/annacrombie) with a ruby extension!
- R: [asciichartr](https://github.com/blmayer/asciichartr), ported by [blmayer](https://github.com/blmayer)!
- Rust: [rasciigraph](https://github.com/orhanbalci/rasciigraph), ported by [orhanbalci](https://github.com/orhanbalci)!
- PHP: [PHP-colored-ascii-linechart](https://github.com/noximo/PHP-colored-ascii-linechart), ported by [noximo](https://github.com/noximo)!
- C#: [asciichart-sharp](https://github.com/samcarton/asciichart-sharp), ported by [samcarton](https://github.com/samcarton)!
### Future work (coming soon, hopefully)
- levels and points on the graph!
- even better value formatting and auto-scaling!
