Fabric.js vs StatsD

Fabric.js vs StatsD: 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, StatsD is detailed as "Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation". StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server, originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. StatsD is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

Fabric.js can be classified as a tool in the "Languages" category, while StatsD is grouped under "Monitoring Tools".

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, StatsD provides the following key features:

• buckets: Each stat is in its own "bucket". They are not predefined anywhere. Buckets can be named anything that will translate to Graphite (periods make folders, etc)
• values: Each stat will have a value. How it is interpreted depends on modifiers. In general values should be integer.
• flush: After the flush interval timeout (defined by config.flushInterval, default 10 seconds), stats are aggregated and sent to an upstream backend service.

Fabric.js and StatsD are both open source tools. StatsD with 14.2K GitHub stars and 1.84K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Fabric.js with 13.2K GitHub stars and 2.14K GitHub forks.