Re:Handsontable drops open source for a non-commercial license
by jchw on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:09PM
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Interesting. This reminds me a fair bit of ag-Grid but I've never heard of it. Is there some comparison somewhere of how all these data tables libraries stack up?
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Re:Handsontable drops open source for a non-commercial license
by warpspin on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @07:05AM
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There's an (incomplete) comparison here https://github.com/AmitMY/grids and an "awesome" list here: https://github.com/FancyGrid/awesome-grid
After having worked with DataTables, ag-Grid and having evaluated a couple of others I'd say that ag-Grid Enterprise is the best general purpose grid library at the moment.
Only for the use case where you really need exactly some kind of Excel look-alike/Excel web viewer, Handsontable Pro or SpreadJS will probably be better for you, as ag-Grid does not really offer a finished solution here and also misses a couple of minor features at the moment.
Re:Handsontable drops open source for a non-commercial license
by TAForObvReasons on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:20PM
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From a business perspective, ag-Grid seems like the most successful / popular solution. They've donated $47500 to webpack https://opencollective.com/webpack#contributors which is really impressive!
Re:Handsontable drops open source for a non-commercial license
by jchw on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:32PM
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Yeah, a place I worked for decided to license agGrid because it was simply the best solution we could find. The React integration was still a bit rough but it did deliver pretty well on the promised features and performance was pretty good too. I imagine a lot of the solutions today are pretty good, but it's been a long time since I've been looking at any of this stuff.