Visualforce Developer Guide

Introducing Visualforce
Tools for Visualforce Development
Getting a Quick Start with Visualforce
Customizing the Appearance and Output of Visualforce Pages
Standard Controllers
Standard List Controllers
Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions
Advanced Examples
Override Buttons, Links, and Tabs with Visualforce
Using Static Resources
Creating and Using Custom Components
Dynamic Visualforce Bindings
Dynamic Visualforce Components
Integrate Email with Visualforce
Visualforce Charting
Visualforce Charting Limitations and Considerations
How Visualforce Charting Works
A Simple Charting Example
Providing Chart Data
Providing Chart Data via a Controller Method
Providing Chart Data Using a JavaScript Function
Providing Chart Data via a JavaScript Array
Chart Data Format
Building a Complex Chart with
Updating Charts with Refreshed Data
Controlling the Appearance of Charts
Creating Maps with Visualforce
Render Flows with Visualforce
Templating with Visualforce
Developing Salesforce Apps with Visualforce
Adding Visualforce to a Salesforce AppExchange App
Using JavaScript in Visualforce Pages
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Visualforce Best Practices
Standard Visualforce Component Reference
Appendices
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Providing Chart Data via a JavaScript Array

You can use Visualforce charting with non-Salesforce data sources by building a JavaScript array, in your own JavaScript code in your page, and providing the name of that array to <apex:chart>.
The following trivial code illustrates this technique:

When using this technique, if your data is coming from a non-Salesforce source, you might not need any server-side Apex code at all.