Fabric.js vs Grafana: What are the differences?
Developers describe Fabric.js as "The easiest way to work with HTML5 canvas". It provides interactive object model on top of canvas element. Fabric also has SVG-to-canvas (and canvas-to-SVG) parser. Using Fabric.js, you can create and populate objects on canvas; objects like simple geometrical shapes. On the other hand, Grafana is detailed as "Open source Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor". Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Fabric.js and Grafana are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Monitoring" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Fabric.js are:
- Cross-browser
Fast
- Encapsulated in one object
- No browser sniffing for critical functionality
On the other hand, Grafana provides the following key features:
- Create, edit, save & search dashboards
- Change column spans and row heights
- Drag and drop panels to rearrange
Fabric.js and Grafana are both open source tools. Grafana with 30.2K GitHub stars and 5.77K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Fabric.js with 13.2K GitHub stars and 2.14K GitHub forks.