Although the Show HN post got many positive comments, many were asking/wondering:
How is this better than Handsontable? How is this better than Jexcel?
Since I spent 2 (!) years building this product, and I truly believe that DataGridXL's is (much) more performant, usable and reliable compared to similar products, I created a Compare-page that let's you compare DataGridXL vs Handsontable and Jexcel.
Compare pages DataGridXL vs ag-Grid & DataGridXL vs DataTables will follow soon!
About DataGridXL:
- It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL.
- It is lightweight (~200kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS.
- It has its own Virtual DOM implementation to prevent DOM errors.
- Developer friendly. Supports all modern web browsers
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 16.0 ms ] threadI’m Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js. DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6.
Two weeks ago I was very happy to see DGXL on Hacker News Front Page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23909894)!
Although the Show HN post got many positive comments, many were asking/wondering:
How is this better than Handsontable? How is this better than Jexcel?
Since I spent 2 (!) years building this product, and I truly believe that DataGridXL's is (much) more performant, usable and reliable compared to similar products, I created a Compare-page that let's you compare DataGridXL vs Handsontable and Jexcel.
Compare pages DataGridXL vs ag-Grid & DataGridXL vs DataTables will follow soon!
About DataGridXL:
- It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL.
- It is lightweight (~200kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS.
- It has its own Virtual DOM implementation to prevent DOM errors.
- Developer friendly. Supports all modern web browsers
Compare DataGridXL with similar products: https://datagridxl.com/compare
One million cells demo: https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments!