Review list of alternatives to cytoscape and make a recommendation

[utunga]

I've been doing research on this and - having tried it for 'real' don't want to continue with cytoscape.js

Categories seem to be

• general purpose visualization libraries that can also do graphs (eg d3.js)
• graph specific visualisation libraries that are tied to a neo4j back end
• graph specific visualisation libraries that are not tied to a neo4j back end

I think I'd prefer the last of these three categories. We also want

• to be able to render large number of loads and apply a smart layout algorithm at good performance
• support for typescript libraries a nice to have
• attractive presentation and options to do things other than just nodes and lines (or to be able to add them to a shared canvas etc)
• elegant / easy to use API

Here is a good list to start with.

https://neo4j.com/developer/tools-graph-visualization/

Would also be good to be informed by performance benchmarks - if we can find them. (I think I found one the other day but it wasn't compelling enough that I can find it again now ;-) )

I have a couple favorites from this list but want to leave it open for now, see if we agree or not.

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We could also, potentially, add a neo4j back end database for storing graph data but even if so I don't know if I want to be tightly coupled to a neo4j back end (?? not sure maybe that's a bad choice).