react-chessground vs chessground

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react-chessground		chessground
	Project
1	Mentions	10
130	Stars	989
3.1%	Growth	2.1%
0.0	Activity	7.3
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

react-chessground

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-chessground. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-24.

How to embed a chess board on a site that I’m creating?
4 projects | /r/chess | 24 Apr 2023

chessground

Posts with mentions or reviews of chessground. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-24.

How to read and understand seemingly large typescript project ?
1 project | /r/typescript | 23 Sep 2023

I want to write a chess board program. I am looking into an open source project called chessground .
How to embed a chess board on a site that I’m creating?
4 projects | /r/chess | 24 Apr 2023
Help with a specific use case?
4 projects | /r/ObsidianMD | 29 Oct 2022
FIDE uses Lichess code and joins the free open source software community!
2 projects | /r/chess | 20 Jun 2022

Looks like FIDE is using https://github.com/lichess-org/chessground, the UI library for creating chess boards that Lichess developed (great library btw).
What does lichess actually do to achieve the "faster" feeling of less lag?
1 project | /r/chess | 20 Dec 2021

I don't think it's lag compensation, I think the actual chess board is more responsive (but I'm not sure if there's a good way to measure that). The README of Chessground (the board used by lichess) says that it is
Arduino-based electronic chess-board I made
2 projects | /r/ArduinoProjects | 12 Sep 2021

I simply used the String representation already provided by the chess library. I'll look into adding a proper chessboard eventually (maybe using chessground in a WebView).
I've been working hard to create MoveGuesser.com, a rich interactive experience to guess the moves of famous games played by legendary Grandmasters. Feedback appreciated!
1 project | /r/chess | 21 Jul 2021

I think Lichess uses Chess Ground for their customizable Board and Pieces UI. I know this seems overkill. But, It's just a suggestion.
[AskJS] Bundle an entire npm module AND convert it to ES6?
2 projects | /r/javascript | 25 Mar 2021

I want to import chessground into a project of mine. It seems it's a CommonJS module, so i used browserify to import it into my web page.
Approach for Chessboard with tiles?
1 project | /r/godot | 21 Mar 2021

TL;TR I wanna create a desktop/mobile app for chess databases management with ability to paint and understand diagrams, and not sure what's next. Something like this ( https://github.com/ornicar/chessground/raw/master/screenshot/twin.jpg )
Chess Repertoire Website
1 project | /r/chess | 25 Feb 2021

Oh dang, my bad! Just pushed up a fix. I guess just testing on Firefox wasn't the smartest thing to do 🤦‍♂️. I'm mainly using Lichess's chessground library with a react wrapper

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-chessground and chessground you can also consider the following projects:

cm-chessboard - A JavaScript chessboard without dependencies. Rendered in SVG, coded in ES6. Views FEN, handles move input, animated, responsive, expandable

vue-chessboard - Chessboard vue component to load positions, create positions and see threats

chessboardjsx - :black_square_button: Chessboard built for React

gungi.io - Online real-time website to play Gungi from Hunter × Hunter ⚡

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

lichobile - lichess.org mobile application

ChessOpenings

storybook - Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Made for UI development, testing, and documentation.

A.C.A.S - Moved to psyyke.github.io

@blueprintjs/core - A React-based UI toolkit for the web

blindfolded-puzzles

blueprint - A code generation tool for Laravel developers.