Chart.js vs Lightweight Charts: What are the differences?
What is Chart.js? Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers. Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.
What is Lightweight Charts? Financial charts built with HTML5 canvas. The library displays financial data as an interactive chart on your web page without affecting your web page loading speed and performance.
Chart.js and Lightweight Charts can be categorized as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Chart.js are:
- animated
- HTML5 based
- Responsive
On the other hand, Lightweight Charts provides the following key features:
- Open source
- Responsive across devices
- Touch-optimized
Chart.js and Lightweight Charts are both open source tools. Chart.js with 44.3K GitHub stars and 9.71K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Lightweight Charts with 607 GitHub stars and 53 GitHub forks.