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This should be an easy one for someone... I expect it's obvious, but I've looked in various places on highcarts' site and google and simply couldn't find an answer...
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Instead of downloading, feel free to use the Highcharts CDN to access files directly. The official Highcharts NPM package comes with support for CommonJS and contains Highcharts, and its Stock, Maps and Gantt packages.
What is Highcharts? Highcharts JS is a JavaScript charting library based on SVG, with fallbacks to VML and canvas for old browsers. To avoid bloating the Highcharts core library, the Highcharts team deploy new chart types and features in a separate file called highcharts-more.js.
In short, highcharts-more is extra functionality on top of Highcharts without modifying it's core code. It also allows you to use some charts types which don't exist in the "original" highcharts such as bubble, range, gauge and pollar charts. Please note that there are several ways to use Highcharts.
In legacy Internet Explorer (IE8 and before) graphics are drawn using VML. Highcharts and Highstock run on any server that supports HTML. You can even run Highcharts locally from a filesystem, since all the rendering is done locally in a browser.
From highcharts.com: (http://www.highcharts.com/articles/2-news/46-gauges-ranges-and-polar-charts-in-beta , http://www.highcharts.com/docs/export-module/setting-up-the-server)
To avoid bloating the Highcharts core JavaScript, we deploy the new chart types and features in a separate file called highcharts-more.js. We will continue to build extended functionality in this file, and reserve highcharts.js for common tasks and visualizations.
Basicly, they added some extra functionality on top of Highcharts without modifying it's core code. Including this file, also allows you to use some types of charts which don't exist in the "original" highcharts such as bubble, range and pollar charts:
...Save highcharts.js or highstock.js for stock charts, highcharts-more.js (for bubble, range, polar charts)....
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