When comparing Handsontable vs SlickGrid, the Slant community recommends SlickGrid for most people. In the question“What are the best HTML Grid controls for Excel like editing?” SlickGrid is ranked 3rd while Handsontable is ranked 7th.
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Pros
Pro Well documented
Handsontable provides easy to follow tutorials for those new to the plugin, detailed documentation on using the features and examples of the plugin in use.
Pro Widely used
Handsontable has a fast growing community and is currently used by thousands of developers.
Pro Actively developed
Handsontable was developed and is currently supported by the development team at [Handsoncode] (http://handsoncode.net/)
Pro Lots of control over style
Pro Excellent performance
Pro Works with all Frameworks and multiple ports are available
For example, Angular-Slickgrid, React-Slickgrid.
Pro 6pac/SlickGrid fork is now browser native (no longer requires jQuery)
Latest version 4.0 of 6pac/SlickGrid dropped jQuery/jQueryUI requirements, the project now uses browser native code and is now much smaller size.
Pro Slickback integrates Backbone and SlickGrid
Slickback integrates Backbone and SlickGrid.
Cons
Con Issues with non-Latin script
Cells that are filled out with non-Latin script such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc display the first character as Latin.
Con May be unsuported
The last commit in to the code was in 2014.
