ag-Grid VS chartist-js

In this post I’ll show you how, using the AG Grid component and Ably Spaces, you can create a React application that allows users to see not only who else is currently viewing the grid, but using a Flowbite Avatar Stack component, what row each user currently has selected.

something like ag-grid? https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid

I personally use https://www.ag-grid.com/ for all my data grid needs. It has a free community version (that should get you covered imo) as well as a paid one with advanced features.

To be fair, in any GUI toolkit, the "table" is abolutely the most complex general purpose widget. People really under estimate the difficult of an efficient implementation. Qt spents YEARS improving their QTableWidget class. The implementation is mind-bogglingly complex. I am sure many very smart summer interns (PhDs!) have tried to tweak that class to squeeze every bit of performance possible. The table class in GTK+ and MSFT DotNet's WPF are equally, freakishly insane.

Consider this idea: Most people who use a table class in a GUI framework assume it is essentially infinitely scalable (myself included!). I am talking about millions of rows or thousands of columns with all kinds of silly widgets injected into individual cells. It is a crazy hard computer science problem to solve. I would not doubt there are many PhD thesises written on the topic of fast, scalable table widgets.

Beyond desktop GUI toolkits, people have tried to do the same in a browser (HTML/CSS/JS). Have you seen AG-Grid? Woah, it is unbelievable how much goddamn data you can squeeze into that widget. Most Wall Streets web-based trading apps use it one way or another. It's just so hard to beat. Ref: https://www.ag-grid.com/ There must be 1,000 person years of optimisation sunk into that implementation.

Chartist.Js (Free)

Anyone here have some good suggestions for mature, easy to use graph libraries for Vue 3? Maybe I should write a wrapper around Chartist myself...

The simplest/smallest would be https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/

Chartist - Really impressive charting library that is only 10KB (Gzip) with no dependencies. Round of applause for this awesome library that should play nice with svelte since it does not have any dependencies. I honestly can't remember why I didn't go with this for this tutorial but there's always time for another tutorial, am I right 😉?

For anyone interested or looking for a charting/vector map tool for Blazor, my organisation has developed and open sourced some packages that sit on top of a couple excellent JS libraries that handle these needs beautifully, Chartist.JS and JQuery Mapael. They are available in the nuget repository, source links below:

Chartist.js is a very modern, SVG-based library. Its most prominent feature is the SVG animations in the charts produced with this library.

Ah, here is something for the data analysts! Chartist is a nice JavaScript library for creating simple, responsive and customizable charts for your website. Chartist uses SVG to render them; hence, your charts can also obey custom CSS rules.

This is interesting.

I really wish this super small library named Chartist was more actively developed. It's only 10kb in size and generates SVG charts.

The huge benefit of SVG is that it's natively responsive and also prints extremely well. Wheres CSS doesn't

https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/

I suspect we would use something that renders in SVG, and has good CSS control, like Chartist that has a small well rounded feature set, and that is fairly light. SVG also leaves us with an option for better a11y by providing at least a chance of screen reader usage.

Just barebones Tailwind CSS and ChartistJS for charts.