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Ignite UI vs Relay: What are the differences?
What is Ignite UI? JavaScript UI for Modern Web App Development- full support for AngularJS, KnockoutJS, Microsoft MVC, Boostrap, Ionic, Onsen and more. HTML & JavaScript toolkit to build modern browser experiences on any device – desktop, tablet or phone. Designed for the enterprise - high-performance, touch-first, responsive apps – with AngularJS directives, Bootstrap support and ASP.NET MVC server-side wrappers.
What is Relay? A JavaScript Framework for Building Data-Driven React Applications, by Facebook. Never again communicate with your data store using an imperative API. Simply declare your data requirements using GraphQL and let Relay figure out how and when to fetch your data.
Ignite UI and Relay can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Ignite UI are:
- Data Grid
- Hierarchical Data Grid
- Tree Grid
On the other hand, Relay provides the following key features:
- Build data driven apps
- Declarative style
- Mutate data on the client and server
Relay is an open source tool with 13.1K GitHub stars and 1.29K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Relay's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Ignite UI
- Fully-Supported2
- Quick and easy to use2
- Fastest Grids and Charts2
- Handles heavy workloads/high data volumes1
- Handles large data volumes1
- Sample applications1
- Easy to use1
- React Dock Manager1
- Broad component set1
