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Discussion on: What technologies can help building an interactive map of nodes, that may be linked to each other (JS)

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Vadorequest

After a little bit more of digging, here is what I've learned:

Proper term to use for (google) search are:

  • Graph network
  • Network
  • Graph theory network
  • Visualisation network

I wasn't using the proper wording and couldn't find what I was really looking for


Potential solutions:

Cytoscape and VisJs seems to be two OSS that answer my needs. The GitHub repo showcases lots of other alternatives.

I've read this article, which is very much useful:
medium.com/@jollyp/big-data-graph-...

It helped me eliminate Cytoscape and D3 based on their "cons". Eliminated all paid solutions as well.

Now, I'm still hesitating between VisJs and Sigma. Hard to tell the difference without digging deeper in the code and testing things out myself.

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diek

Yeah, to learn better this topic, try to practise with linked lists made by yourself and then double linked lists. I see you want to use js, it will be easier than Java or C++, you will not be worried about the nulls and your logic and code will be cleaner.