Chart.js vs Highland.js: What are the differences?
Chart.js: Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers. Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions; Highland.js: The high-level streams library for Node.js and the browser. It manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams. You may be familiar with Promises, EventEmitters and callbacks, but moving between them is far from seamless.
Chart.js can be classified as a tool in the "Charting Libraries" category, while Highland.js is grouped under "Javascript Utilities & Libraries".
Some of the features offered by Chart.js are:
- animated
- HTML5 based
- Responsive
On the other hand, Highland.js provides the following key features:
- Intended to work with node.js(or browserify) environment which is really nice
- No alien concepts(from JavaScript/Node perspective)
- Back-pressure
Chart.js and Highland.js are both open source tools. Chart.js with 45.1K GitHub stars and 9.87K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Highland.js with 3.21K GitHub stars and 158 GitHub forks.