react-beautiful-dnd vs React Canvas: What are the differences?

What is react-beautiful-dnd? Beautiful and accessible drag and drop for lists with React (by Atlassian). There are a lot of libraries out there that allow for drag and drop interactions within React. Most notable of these is the amazing react-dnd. It does an incredible job at providing a great set of drag and drop primitives which work especially well with the wildly inconsistent html5 drag and drop feature. react-beautiful-dnd is a higher level abstraction specifically built for vertical and horizontal lists. Within that subset of functionality react-beautiful-dnd offers a powerful, natural and beautiful drag and drop experience. However, it does not provide the breadth of functionality offered by react-dnd.

What is React Canvas? High performance canvas rendering for React components, developed by Flipboard. React Canvas adds the ability for React components to render to "canvas" rather than DOM. This project is a work-in-progress. Though much of the code is in production on flipboard.com, the React canvas bindings are relatively new and the API is subject to change.

react-beautiful-dnd and React Canvas can be categorized as "JavaScript Framework Components" tools.

react-beautiful-dnd and React Canvas are both open source tools. react-beautiful-dnd with 15.2K GitHub stars and 831 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Canvas with 12K GitHub stars and 944 GitHub forks.