Explore creating visualisation with CytoscapeJS

[YoofiTT96]

Currently we are using jsPlumb Community Edition to render nodes and edges for the visualisation. We want to experiment with other libraries and compare capabilities and suitability long term. CytoscapeJS is a good graph theory library for visualisation.

[willosborne]

Had a quick look and it looks pretty promising, but we already have stuff that works with JsPlumb.

Definitely worth investigating - I think a pros/cons breakdown comparing the two libraries would be really useful as an outcome if you look into this on the hackday tomorrow.

e.g. is cytoscape better for layout? what can/can't it do compared to jsplumb, etc.

The other thing is licensing - is there a free/paid version problem? We have seen this for quite a few of these diagram libraries.

[YoofiTT96]

Totally agree on the pros/cons breakdown. It's actually the layouting ability we want to investigate. Originally it wasnt clear how to achieve automatic layouting (making sure everything is spaced out) with jsPlumb without having to manually manipulate physics. We have discovered some docs that we will explore to see if its possible with jsPlumb so this exploration should be a useful fallback in case