Chart.js vs Proppy: 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 Proppy? Functional props composition for components. ProppyJS is a tiny 1.5kB JavaScript library for composing props (object that components receive to render themselves)
The generated props can then be used in your favourite components-based UI framework (like React or Vue.js)..
Chart.js belongs to "Charting Libraries" category of the tech stack, while Proppy can be primarily classified under "Javascript Utilities & Libraries".
Some of the features offered by Chart.js are:
- animated
- HTML5 based
- Responsive
On the other hand, Proppy provides the following key features:
- Stateless - Your component layer ends up becoming stateless, and only responsible for accepting props and rendering them.
- Functional - With your props being composed in functions, they become easier to expand as your requirements grow.
- Providers - With Proppy's providers, you can set application-wide global object accessible anywhere in your components tree.
Chart.js and Proppy are both open source tools. Chart.js with 44.3K GitHub stars and 9.71K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Proppy with 830 GitHub stars and 14 GitHub forks.