Chart.js vs Velocity.js: What are the differences?
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; Velocity.js: An incredibly fast animation engine for motion designers. It is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery's $.animate(). It works with and without jQuery. It is the best of jQuery and CSS transitions combined.
Chart.js belongs to "Charting Libraries" category of the tech stack, while Velocity.js 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, Velocity.js provides the following key features:
- Color animation
- Transforms
- Loops
Chart.js and Velocity.js are both open source tools. It seems that Chart.js with 45.5K GitHub stars and 9.94K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Velocity.js with 16.2K GitHub stars and 1.53K GitHub forks.