What you need for this book

Readers are expected to have basic knowledge of web development in the following areas:

As this book is all about Highcharts which is developed in JavaScript, readers should be comfortable with the language at an intermediate level. Highcharts is developed as an adapter plugin to support several popular JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Mootools, and Prototype. By default, Highcharts uses jQuery library, which is the most popular amongst them. This book not only follows such choice so that all the examples are implemented in jQuery, but also uses a very moderate way. Hence, a basic knowledge of jQuery should be sufficient and preferably some knowledge of jQuery UI would be an advantage, as it is lightly used in Chapter 7 and Chapter 8.