Charted vs MetricsGraphics.js: What are the differences?

Developers describe Charted as "A charting tool that produces automatic, shareable charts from any data file". Charted is a tool for automatically visualizing data, created by the Product Science team at Medium. Provide the link to a data file and Charted returns a beautiful, interactive, and shareable chart of the data. On the other hand, MetricsGraphics.js is detailed as "D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data". MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data. It provides a simple way to produce common types of graphics in a principled, consistent and responsive way. The library currently supports line charts, scatterplots and histograms as well as features like rug plots and basic linear regression.

Charted and MetricsGraphics.js belong to "Charting Libraries" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Charted are:

• Rendering well on all screen sizes, including monitors
• Re-fetching the data and updating the chart every 30 minutes
• Moving data series into separate charts

On the other hand, MetricsGraphics.js provides the following key features:

• Line Chart
• Multi-Line Chart
• Few Observations

Charted and MetricsGraphics.js are both open source tools. MetricsGraphics.js with 7.11K GitHub stars and 497 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Charted with 2.73K GitHub stars and 193 GitHub forks.