Time Series - Scale & Ticks

I understand how to use the axis.x.type='timeseries' and axis.x.tick, but would really love for Billboard to automatically scale the ticks to fix the screen and/or zoom focus.

In this d3 block, see how it gets more granular automatically as you zoom in: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4015254

Here’s an example with Highcharts: https://www.highcharts.com/demo/line-time-series

Lastly, NVD3 can do this but doesn’t have good documentation for it. In fact, a lot of people are still using NVD3, which hasn’t had a release in over a year, just for it’s timeseries chart. NVD3 looks slick out-of-the-box too, but the timeseries was why I used it for a while before realizing that it’s not active.

[nirmal93guna]

Hi @netil, I’m facing the same issue and I would like this feature to be present as well. I could see that the feature is not yet completed in the milestone and I would be willing to contribute towards adding the feature if no one is working on it.

[ataft]

Thanks, but I don’t think the billboard.js community is going to bump this up in priority for one major reason, they don’t use timeseries extensively. Any developer that needs to do time-based charting simply isn’t going to choose Billboard. They’re either going to use Highcharts (not free though) or NVD3 (not maintained). Thus, you won’t get feedback because people are disqualified from using Billboard because of time-series charting. But look at how many people are still using the unmaintained NVD3 libarary: https://www.npmtrends.com/nvd3-vs-billboard.js. The way I look at it, it’s an opportunity to pick up a LOT of new users.

Anyhow, no pressure, just trying to make some points to get a feature I’d love. Thanks again for all your hard work!