C3.js vs KoolChart: What are the differences?
What is C3.js? A D3-based reusable chart library. c3 is a D3-based reusable chart library that enables deeper integration of charts into web applications.
What is KoolChart? HTML5 Canvas based JavaScript charting library. It is an HTML5 CANVAS-based charting solution with excellent performance. It works on all HTML5-supported browsers. With a single development effort, the chart layout and style can be used on multiple devices.
C3.js and KoolChart can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by C3.js are:
- Comfortable - C3 makes it easy to generate D3-based charts by wrapping the code required to construct the entire chart. We don't need to write D3 code any more.
- Customizable - C3 gives some classes to each element when generating, so you can define a custom style by the class and it's possible to extend the structure directly by D3.
- Controllable - C3 provides a variety of APIs and callbacks to access the state of the chart. By using them, you can update the chart even if after it's rendered.
On the other hand, KoolChart provides the following key features:
- Separate Layout and Dataset, which enhances productivity and quality
- Use the out-of-the-box drill-down functionality without depth limitation
- Handle events using JavaScript
C3.js is an open source tool with 8.47K GitHub stars and 1.41K GitHub forks. Here's a link to C3.js's open source repository on GitHub.