JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit vs. JointJS vs. Polymer vs. RequireJS Comparison Chart

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating interactive data visualizations for the web. The best way to start is to take a look at the demos page. Each demo has a See the Example Code link that takes you to the code for that example. The actual library code is included in the HTML file by building the lib each time with only the needed requirements taken from the name of the visualization and the build.json file. The required library code is built by the build.py file. In order to create a new visualization you need to set up the server environment to include test JavaScript files for your new visualization and also you need to add the new visualization files into the Source folder.

The Polymer library provides a set of features for creating custom elements. These features are designed to make it easier and faster to make custom elements that work like standard DOM elements. Similar to standard DOM elements, Polymer elements can be instantiated using a constructor or document creation element, configured using attributes or properties, populated with internal DOM inside each instance, responsive to property and attribute changes, styled with internal defaults or externally, and responsive to methods that manipulate its internal state. Registering an element associates a class with a custom element name. The element provides callbacks to manage its lifecycle. Polymer also lets you declare properties, to integrate your element's property API with the Polymer data system. Shadow DOM provides a local, encapsulated DOM tree for your element. Polymer can automatically create and populate a shadow tree for your element from a DOM template.