C3.js vs React PivotTable: What are the differences?
Developers describe C3.js as "A D3-based reusable chart library". c3 is a D3-based reusable chart library that enables deeper integration of charts into web applications. On the other hand, React PivotTable is detailed as "React-based drag'n'drop pivot table with Plotly.js charts". Pivot tables are interactive data exploration and summarization tools which have been a critical part of data analysts’ toolkits for the past 25 years, especially in spreadsheets like Excel. PivotTable.js is one of the most popular Javascript pivot table implementations; react-pivottable is a reimagined version for the modern web.
C3.js and React PivotTable can be categorized 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, React PivotTable provides the following key features:
- Roll up, unroll, pivot, and chart data
- Summarize your data with various statistical functions
- Slice, dice, and drag the menu aside if it's in the way
C3.js and React PivotTable are both open source tools. It seems that C3.js with 8.42K GitHub stars and 1.4K forks on GitHub has more adoption than React PivotTable with 497 GitHub stars and 98 GitHub forks.