Chart.js vs Sugar: 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 Sugar? A Javascript library for working with native objects. It is a Javascript library that extends native objects with helpful methods. It is designed to be intuitive, unobtrusive, and let you do more with less code.
Chart.js can be classified as a tool in the "Charting Libraries" category, while Sugar is grouped under "Javascript Utilities & Libraries".
Some of the features offered by Chart.js are:
- animated
- HTML5 based
- Responsive
On the other hand, Sugar provides the following key features:
- A straightforward API makes it very easy to pick up and start using
- Custom builds and modularized npm packages let you use only what you need
- Users can define methods or use plugins to handle specialized use cases.
Chart.js and Sugar are both open source tools. It seems that Chart.js with 45K GitHub stars and 9.85K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Sugar with 4.24K GitHub stars and 324 GitHub forks.