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Add to SafariWhen comparing SlickGrid vs jqGrid, the Slant community recommends jqGrid for most people. In the question“What are the best HTML Grid controls for Excel like editing?” jqGrid is ranked 1st while SlickGrid is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose jqGrid is:
Works great with large amounts of data.
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Pros
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.
Pro Great performance
Works great with large amounts of data.
Pro Client & server side sorting
Sorting can be done both client-side and server-side.
Pro Multiple data sources
jqGrid can handle JSON, XML and array input.
Pro Inline editing
You can update a rows text, text area, check box, select, image, button.
Pro Solid documentation
Thorough documentation.
Pro Advanced search
You can search multiple fields at the same time with different conditions.
Pro Modular
You can choose what modules of jqGrid you need and avoid bloat.
Pro Multiple export options
jqGrid can export to csv, excel and pdf files.
Pro Easy to pick up
Easy to implement and use.
Cons
Con May be unsuported
The last commit in to the code was in 2014.
Con Bad documentation
