Chart.js vs SVG.js: 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 SVG.js? A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG. The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG. It has no dependencies and aims to be as small as possible.
Chart.js and SVG.js 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, SVG.js provides the following key features:
- Animations on size, position, transformations, color,...
- Painless extension thanks to the modular structure
- Various useful plugins available
Chart.js and SVG.js are both open source tools. Chart.js with 47.9K GitHub stars and 10.3K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than SVG.js with 7.85K GitHub stars and 909 GitHub forks.