ag-grid vs slick-grid vs angular-grid which is better?

Question

Recently we thought to change our current grid tool. Currently we're using kendo-ui for grid and all. After searching we came with 3 results. But, still we're not sure which is better and why in future run.

While using kendo we missed having control over it. It would be a great if any one can help us out on choosing right grid with angularjs.

Answer 1

Disclosure: I'm the founder and CEO of ag-Grid.

First, some clarification on the question, ag-Grid used to be called angular-grid, however I presume you meant angular-ui-grid (or simply ui-grid), so allow me to answer ag-grid vs slick-grid vs ui-grid. The answer is ag-Grid.

For reference, these are the sites: ag-Grid, ui-grid, slick-grid

All grids are popular and widely used, each with a community of users.

To give a full comparison is outside the context of a Stackoverflow response, however feedback from the community says ag-Grid is better for the following reasons:

1. ui-Grid only works in AngularJS 1.x. ag-Grid supports Angular 1 and 2, React and even native Javascript (no-Framework). So if using ui-Grid, you have only one option for your framework, that's AngularJS 1. Slickgrid is native Javascript (uses JQuery) so will work outside any framework also.
2. Documentation for ag-Grid is excellent.
3. For enterprise features (grouping, filtering, custom cell rendering, pinning) ag-Grid again wins. The grouping and aggregation feature of ag-Grid is not matched by the others. Slickgrid doesn't have pinning, which was a blocker for me. Only ag-Grid has Excel like filtering.
4. slickgrid is no longer maintained by the founder (according to his website).
5. ag-Grid is written using pure Javascript, it does not have any libraries as dependencies. ui-grid depends on Angular. Slickgrid depends on JQuery.
6. Performance wise, SlickGrid and ag-Grid are on par. However ui-grid performs poorly on large datasets.
7. Source code wise, the code inside ag-Grid is very well laid out, so when you need to understand how something works, it's easy to debug in through the code.
8. Size-wize, ag-Grid is larger than much of the competition. Circa 1-Aug-2018, the CDN download for ag-grid is 783978 bytes minified..that doesn't include stylesheets. This may be a deal-breaker for some people.
9. And lastly, if ui-grid or slickgrid were up to my standards, I wouldn't have needed to write ag-Grid!