In this very first chapter, we took a look at Highcharts and the features it provides to make JavaScript charting more intuitive and interactive. We also took a brief look at the options available when downloading Highcharts. After downloading the full Highcharts package, we familiarized ourselves with the included files and their purpose. At the end, we built a simple Highcharts to get started with this wonderful charting library.

In the next chapter, we will look more closely at column and bar charts. We will learn about configuring column/bar charts to enable the drilldown features that allow us to zoom in to the data. We will also learn how to stack column charts and create charts with negative stacks.