When comparing Webix vs Shield UI, the Slant community recommends Shield UI for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript charting libraries? ” Shield UI is ranked 3rd while Webix is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Shield UI is:
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
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Pros
Pro A lot of widgets
Webix is one of the most extensive UI component libraries, second only to Sencha ExtJS. Not only considering the number of widgets, but also the API methods for manipulating these widgets.
Pro Views can be constructed using JavaScript without HTML
The most common way of working with webix is to create a JSON configuration of your view in JavaScript. When you use TypeScript, you get complete typechecking and intellisense in your IDE.
Pro Seems to be quite stable
Even the most complicated GUIs are bug-free most of the time.
Pro Webix Jet
The webix Jet library adds all the required features for SPA development (routing, template loading, ...)
Pro Extremely simple to implement.
To get started is extremely simple. It has a low learning curve.
Pro Mature project
Regular updates and releases.
Pro Great support from the webix team
The company behind webix is really quick in answering any questions you have on their forum or via email.
Pro Awesome responsive material skins
Great design and icons pack.
Pro Many chart types available
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
Pro Wrappers for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Apache Wicket available
Each chart can be implemented to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications, with detailed documentation and guides for each.
Pro Supports combining different charts
Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)
Pro Supports combining different charts
You can combine different charts (they can be of the same type or even different types of charts) to display data correlations.
Cons
Con Commercial license
It's not free for commercial applications.
Con Not very popular
Not really a reason to not recommend it. But it has still a small user base. It deserves a lot more attention.
Con Not modular
The library is not modular (except for some additional more complex widgets). If you only need a few widgets, you still need to include the entire library.
Con Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.