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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.

Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)

Usage

NodeJS

npm install asciichart
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

<!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.

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))

Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)

The output can be configured by passing a second parameter to the plot (series, config) function. The following options are supported:

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

Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)

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

Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)

Auto-range

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))

Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)

Multiple Series

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 ]))

Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)

Colors

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))

Foreground / Background

var config = {
    colors: [
        [ asciichart.blue, asciichart.default ], // foreground, default
        [ asciichart.green, asciichart.darkgray ], // foreground, background
        [ undefined, asciichart.red ], // default foreground color
        [ asciichart.magenta, undefined ], // default background color
    ]
}

console.log (asciichart.plot([ arr1, arr2, arr3, arr4 ], config))

Console ASCII Line charts in pure Javascript (for NodeJS and browsers)

See Also

A util by madnight for drawing Bitcoin/Ether/altcoin charts in command-line console: bitcoin-chart-cli.

bitcoin-chart-cli

Ports

Special thx to all who helped port it to other languages, great stuff!

Future work (coming soon, hopefully)

  • multi-line colored charts in console!
  • levels and points on the graph!
  • even better value formatting and auto-scaling!

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