Get Started with ECharts in 5 minutes

Installing ECharts

First, install ECharts using one of the following methods:

Download official source release from Apache ECharts (incubating) website. Then build from the source release.
Download from GitHub
Using npm: npm install echarts --save. Using ECharts with webpack
Use CDN like jsDelivr.

Including ECharts

Load echarts.min.js with a script tag.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <!-- including ECharts file -->
    <script src="echarts.min.js"></script>
</head>
</html>

Draw a simple chart

Before drawing charts, we need to prepare a DOM container with width and height for ECharts.

<body>
    <!-- preparing a DOM with width and height for ECharts -->
    <div id="main" style="width:600px; height:400px;"></div>
</body>

Then we can initialize an ECharts instance using echarts.init, and create a simple bar chart with setOption. Below is the complete code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>ECharts</title>
    <!-- including ECharts file -->
    <script src="echarts.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <!-- prepare a DOM container with width and height -->
    <div id="main" style="width: 600px;height:400px;"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        // based on prepared DOM, initialize echarts instance
        var myChart = echarts.init(document.getElementById('main'));

        // specify chart configuration item and data
        var option = {
            title: {
                text: 'ECharts entry example'
            },
            tooltip: {},
            legend: {
                data:['Sales']
            },
            xAxis: {
                data: ["shirt","cardign","chiffon shirt","pants","heels","socks"]
            },
            yAxis: {},
            series: [{
                name: 'Sales',
                type: 'bar',
                data: [5, 20, 36, 10, 10, 20]
            }]
        };

        // use configuration item and data specified to show chart
        myChart.setOption(option);
    </script>
</body>
</html>

You've made your first chart!

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For more examples, go to the ECharts Gallery