[HN Gopher] Vector.js: an open source JavaScript library for cre...
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       Vector.js: an open source JavaScript library for creating
       interactive graphics
        
       Author : lazyjeff
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2022-06-10 22:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (vectorjs.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (vectorjs.org)
        
       | solardev wrote:
       | Hmm, interesting... what is the advantage of using something like
       | this vs the bigger, more mature libs?
       | 
       | Vector.js looks like it's maintained by a small team of
       | university students as their capstone project. That's a cool
       | thing to produce for a school project, for sure, but are there
       | compelling reasons for other users to choose this lib in
       | particular?
       | 
       | Just to share some findings... at work we recently evaluated the
       | market for JS graphics libraries, and to our surprise, there were
       | MANY good options.
       | 
       | At lower levels of abstractions, there was GraphicsJS, Two.js,
       | Paper.js, D3.js.
       | 
       | Higher up, there was Fabric.js and Konva.
       | 
       | Beyond that, there are entire JS graphics engines for games and
       | such, like Phaser.io and PixiJS. And for maps, like OpenLayers or
       | Leaflet. And for charts, like Chart.js and Apex and Victory and
       | Fusion. And then there was an even larger graveyard of graphics
       | libs that seemingly were once great, but then was possibly
       | abandoned, like Raphael or Stage.js.
       | 
       | It seemed like no matter what your graphics needs were, there was
       | a particular lib that would fulfill most of it. And it also
       | seemed like it was a problem that different teams continuously
       | reinvented, to different degrees of success and longevity.
        
       | maneesh wrote:
       | Crashes my Android chrome browser on a Google pixel 4 XL 67% of
       | the time
        
       | FractalHQ wrote:
       | Trying to navigate and interact with these on mobile is difficult
       | and frustrating. Adding`overflow-x: hidden` will fix most of that
       | and larger graphics for small screens would help a lot.
        
         | stoicjumbotron wrote:
         | The example did not even load for me in mobile and Brave
         | staight up crashed
        
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