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by watty 3556 days ago
Looks nice, I may use them.

I noticed in the docs you said they are great for desktop, mobile, or (emphasized) "IoT devices with limited resources". These run on the client side which means they won't typically run on IoT devices unless I'm missing something. What does it have to do with IoT?

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I guess the author is talking about the small codebase, which means every IoT device that has some kind of webinterface has to store and serve less data (library is 10kb gzipped, while a high level chart library like d3 is 77kb). At least in the case where you don't serve libraries from a CDN..
Exactly, that was I meant :)
Maybe that client-rendering doesn't put load on the IoT device serving the page (vs. e.g. rendering an image on it and serving that)
They might mean for use in something that's built on Electron or another cross platform desktop library built with js.