Highcharts vs Vue.js: What are the differences?
Developers describe Highcharts as "A charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application". Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types. On the other hand, Vue.js is detailed as "Reactive Components for Modern Web Interfaces". Vue.js is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
Highcharts can be classified as a tool in the "Charting Libraries" category, while Vue.js is grouped under "Javascript UI Libraries".
Some of the features offered by Highcharts are:
- It works in all modern mobile and desktop browsers including the iPhone/iPad and Internet Explorer from version 6
- Free for non-commercial
- One of the key features of Highcharts is that under any of the licenses, free or not, you are allowed to download the source code and make your own edits
On the other hand, Vue.js provides the following key features:
- Reactivity
- Components
- Modularity
"Low learning curve and powerful" is the top reason why over 26 developers like Highcharts, while over 207 developers mention "Simple and easy to start with" as the leading cause for choosing Vue.js.
Highcharts and Vue.js are both open source tools. It seems that Vue.js with 142K GitHub stars and 20.4K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Highcharts with 8.75K GitHub stars and 2.31K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Vue.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 819 company stacks & 1170 developers stacks; compared to Highcharts, which is listed in 213 company stacks and 38 developer stacks.