Chart.js vs Linaria: What are the differences?
Developers describe Chart.js as "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. On the other hand, Linaria is detailed as "Zero-runtime CSS in JS library". Write CSS in JS and get real CSS files during build. Use dynamic prop based styles with the React bindings and have them transpiled to CSS variables automatically. Great productivity with source maps and linting support.
Chart.js and Linaria are primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" and "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Chart.js are:
- animated
- HTML5 based
- Responsive
On the other hand, Linaria provides the following key features:
- Write CSS in JS, but with zero runtime, CSS is extracted to CSS files during build
- Familiar CSS syntax with Sass like nesting
- Use dynamic prop based styles with the React bindings, uses CSS variables behind the scenes
Chart.js and Linaria are both open source tools. It seems that Chart.js with 48K GitHub stars and 10.3K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Linaria with 5.13K GitHub stars and 186 GitHub forks.