When comparing w2ui vs CanJS, the Slant community recommends w2ui for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript libraries for building a UI?” w2ui is ranked 11th while CanJS is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose w2ui is:
Any component is well documented and have an easy API to access validation, dataloading and handling user events.
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Pros
Pro Easy and clean API
Any component is well documented and have an easy API to access validation, dataloading and handling user events.
Pro Lots of components/widgets
Library contains UI components like Datagrids, Forms, Tabs, SideBars, Toolbars and more.
Pro Small library size
Only two files need to be included 1 .css and 1 .js, together they are only 365 kb.
regarding to amount of components it is very small.
Pro Great browser support
CanJS supports all modern browsers and IE9+.
Pro CanJS can be used with any other library
CanJS is a collection of individual libraries, each separately available as npm packages. It's easy to use just what you need.
Pro Real time support
CanJS's model layer (can-connect), support real-time updates to lists without adding any additional code.