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Dropzone.js vs winjs: What are the differences?
What is Dropzone.js? An open source library that provides drag and drop file uploads with image previews. A light weight JavaScript library that turns an HTML element. This means that a user can drag and drop a file onto it, and the file gets uploaded to the server via AJAX.
What is winjs? A UI toolkit for modern browsers, by Microsoft. WinJS is a set of JavaScript toolkits that allow developers to build applications using HTML/JS/CSS technology forged with the following principles in mind: 1. Provide developers with a distinctive set of UI controls with high polish and performance with fundamental support for touch, mouse, keyboard and accessibility 2. Provide developers with a cohesive set of components and utilities to build the scaffolding and infrastructure of their applications'.
Dropzone.js and winjs can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Dropzone.js and winjs are both open source tools. It seems that Dropzone.js with 14.4K GitHub stars and 3.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than winjs with 4.06K GitHub stars and 503 GitHub forks.
Pros of Dropzone.js
Pros of winjs
- Developed by Microsoft1
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Cons of Dropzone.js
Cons of winjs
- Small community1