When comparing PERGOLA vs ZIM, the Slant community recommends PERGOLA for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript drawing libraries?” PERGOLA is ranked 25th while ZIM is ranked 29th. The most important reason people chose PERGOLA is:
Pergola runs seamlessly in an HTML environment (option in configuration file). All the examples are provided both as SVG standalone and embedded in HTML, and are strictly equal. Besides its universal Node Helper (http://www.svgmagazine.com/jul2011/dom-helper.html) Pergola also provides the equivalent for building HTML nodes and <foreignObject> HTML nodes.
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Pros
Pro HTML
Pergola runs seamlessly in an HTML environment (option in configuration file). All the examples are provided both as SVG standalone and embedded in HTML, and are strictly equal.
Besides its universal Node Helper (http://www.svgmagazine.com/jul2011/dom-helper.html) Pergola also provides the equivalent for building HTML nodes and <foreignObject> HTML nodes.
Pro SVG native
The first and most accomplished SVG native library, 100% cross-platform compatible.
Pro ZIM lets you write less code
Here is a chart of examples showing ZIM at 37% less code the developer writes when compared to other frameworks such as PixiJS, Flutter, CreateJS, PaperJS, P5js, Phaser and the DOM.
Pro ZIM supports chaining
It is quite common in ZIM to not even store an object in a variable as chaining is available for almost all methods and there are short chainable methods for most properties.
new Circle().center().drag();
new Rectangle()
.loc(100,100)
.alp(0) // alpha
.animate({x:200, alpha:1}, .5);
Pro ZIM has dynamic parameters
new Tile(new Circle(20, series(red, blue, green), 10, 10).center();
// tiles 10x10 circles with colors is series of red, blue or green
new Emitter([new Circle(), new Rectangle()]).center();
// emits random circles and rectangles
interval({min:1, max:3}, ()=>{});
// each interval is between 1 and 3 seconds
So passing in a series lets you pick in order, passing in an array lets you pick randomly, passing in a min/max range picks from the range, passing in a function picks the result of the function. These can be applied to all styles too.
Pro ZIM has Style on the Canvas
Style = {
color:red,
Button:{
color:blue;
}
}
new Circle().center(); // red
new Button().center(); // blue
Pro The ZIM DUO technique of providing regular parameters or a configuration object literal is very handy.
For instance:
new Rectangle(100,100,undefined,undefined,undefined,20).center();
or
new Rectangle({width:100, height:100, corner:20}).center();
Cons
Con Commercial license
PERGOLA does not offer a free version. The price for a single developer to use PERGOLA is 400 €.
