rogansage

Done some research and think chart.js seems like a great option. D3 seems powerful but might be complicated. Looking for simple + powerful, but maybe these are mutually exclusive... any advice?

I've spoken to a bunch of people who use BI tools to embed analytics into their apps with an iframe. Nobody seems to like what they get despite some big players (PowerBI from Microsoft, Looker from Google, Tableau from Salesforce, Metabase etc. etc.) -- (Full disclosure: our team working on a solution to this)

It seems there are generally only two (imperfect) options for building analytics in your app:

- either use a BI tool/out-of-the-box tool and embed an iframe (giving you very limited control and flexibility over the components & styling)

- or build it yourself which allows you to make it look fully native, but turns out to be quite a heavy undertaking when you factor in design/build/maintenance/infrastructure/data management/QA/feature requests/personalisation/localisation/performance/accessibility etc. etc.

Has anyone else been forced to select one of these two imperfect options?

We've just started working on something to address this issue - I'd love to hear about peoples experiences to help work out what the ideal solution might be