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Add to SafariWhen comparing Backgrid.js 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 Backgrid.js is ranked 8th.
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Pros
Pro Open Source
The source can be found on GitHub.
Pro Easy to style
Backgrid.js writes semantic HTML so it's easy to style and customize with plain CSS.
Pro Lightweight
To avoid bloat, everything but the base functionality is a offered as an extension.
Pro Great documentation
Thorough documentation with lots of examples.
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 Depends on 3 libraries
jquery >= 1.7.0
underscore.js ~ 1.5.0
backbone.js >= 1.1.0
Con May be unsuported
The last commit in to the code was in 2014.
