# flot/flot

Attractive JavaScript charts for jQuery

Repository: https://github.com/flot/flot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flot
Homepage: http://www.flotcharts.org/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-11-08T19:56:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5698, "days_push": 1029, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5909, forks 1537 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:32.155893+00:00)

## What it is
Flot is a pure JavaScript plotting library built on jQuery for creating attractive, interactive charts in web pages. It supports line, bar, pie, and other chart types with a plugin system and is aimed at engineering and scientific applications.

## Use cases
- draw line charts in a web page
- add interactive charts to a jQuery app
- plot scientific or engineering data in the browser
- create bar and pie charts from JSON data
- render real-time updating time-series charts
- embed charts in a dashboard

## When to choose
- your project already uses jQuery
- you need simple, attractive interactive charts with broad legacy browser support
- you want a lightweight plotting library with a plugin system

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern framework app without jQuery
- you need advanced chart types like 3D or large-scale big-data rendering
- you want a library with frequent active development

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-visualization, charts, ui-components
- domain: data-visualization, frontend, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery, plotting, line-charts, interactive-charts, scientific-plotting, javascript

## Member repositories
- flot/flot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.155893+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:51:17.248666+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/flot/flot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.155893+00:00, sha 85464ab29cc4)
  - homepage: http://www.flotcharts.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:57.443395+00:00, sha fe171b3bb791)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/flot (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:57.446053+00:00, sha 45157f27b054)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.