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Underscore vs Raphael: What are the differences?

What is Underscore? JavaScript's utility _ belt. A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

What is Raphael? JavaScript library that draws Vector graphics for web sites. It is a cross-browser JavaScript library that draws Vector graphics for web sites. It will use SVG for most browsers, but will use VML for older versions of Internet Explorer.

Underscore and Raphael can be categorized as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.

Underscore and Raphael are both open source tools. Underscore with 24.8K GitHub stars and 5.42K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Raphael with 10.3K GitHub stars and 1.59K GitHub forks.

Pinterest, reddit, and LinkedIn are some of the popular companies that use Underscore, whereas Raphael is used by vLearning Solutions, Gigya, and Fujitsu. Underscore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1173 company stacks & 458 developers stacks; compared to Raphael, which is listed in 305 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Decisions about Raphael and Underscore

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) provides standard data objects in JSON format for the healthcare industry. Since JSON objects are hierarchical and tree-like, we had a need to defensively 'pluck' fields from our JSON objects and do lots of mapping. We tried jQuery and Underscore and a few other technologies like FHIRPath; but Lodash has been the most well supported, works in the most contexts, has the cleanest syntax, etc. We particularly like the ES6 version of Lodash, where we can import the method names directly, without resorting to * or _ syntax. We got hooked on the 'get' function to defensively pluck fields from objects without crashing our user interface, and have found countless uses for the other lodash functions throughout our apps. Lodash is great for developing and optimizing algorithms.

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    What is Raphael?

    It is a cross-browser JavaScript library that draws Vector graphics for web sites. It will use SVG for most browsers, but will use VML for older versions of Internet Explorer.

    What is Underscore?

    A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

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