[justtoni]

vis-network is a great library. We actually started with it because we liked the API, the styling capabilities, easy to use event handlers. But we experienced performance issues when we wanted to simulate and render larger graphs because it was done in the main thread, the whole UI was blocked by it. We tried to fix it in vis, but simulation was using DOM so it was super hard to split simulation and renderer.

Actually that was the main reason (along with the note that main authors are not contributing to visjs any more [1]) for a creation of the Orb where we fixed the blocking UI issue with graph simulation. Orb engine has two parts now:

* Simulator that doesn't depend on the DOM so we can move its heavy calculation to the web worker - we use d3-force for it [2]

* Renderer is pretty much influenced by vis-network, using similar style mechanism and canvas drawing capabilities (we credited vis-network in our code for those sections)

[1] https://github.com/almende/vis/issues/4259#issue-412107497

[2] https://github.com/d3/d3-force