Iam trying to build network visualisation graphs.I want to have search for nodes,callbacks for nodes click and actions,visually appealing,simpler and lighter and faster interface. Also it should scale up. I tried googling anf figured out d3.js and sigma js. Which one is more good for my usecase ?

Iam trying to build network visualisation graphs.I want to have search for nodes,callbacks for nodes click and actions,visually appealing,simpler and lighter and faster interface. Also it should scale up. I tried googling anf figured out d3.js and sigma js. Which one is more good for my usecase ?

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• d3.js
• sigma.js

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D3.js:

• won't scale up to more than a couple of hundreds of nodes/edges (SVG only)
• easy to use and customize if you aleasy know D3

Sigma.js:

• scales up to thousands of nodes/edges (using Canvas or WebGL renderers)
• easy to use and customize
• easy node/edge interactions
• lots of cool existing plugins

I strongly believe (and contributed to) a fork of Sigma.js called Linkurious.js. It fixes lots of issues and adds lots of cool plugins that make building network visualizations really easy.