Tutorial: Known limitations

Although we are working hard on this library, it still has some known shortcomings. Consider this list to make sure there are no potential blockings.

• It uses several dependencies

  Our team follows the "proudly found elsewhere" principle which encourages us to make use of the great work done by other developers. You will probably find the following open source libraries being utilized by Handsontable:

  • numbro.js (handles numeric data)
    Author: Benjamin Van Ryseghem
    License: Open source (MIT)
    http://numbrojs.com/
  • Pikaday (displays a date picker)
    Author: David Bushell
    License: Open source (BSD & MIT)
    https://github.com/dbushell/Pikaday
  • moment.js (parses, validates and displays dates)
    Author: Tim Wood, Tskren Chernev, Moment.js contributors
    License: Open source (MIT)
    http://momentjs.com
  • formula.js (provides syntax and logic for functions)
    Author: Sutoiku, Inc
    License: Open source (MIT)
    http://stoic.com
  • json-patch-duplex.js (implementation of JSON-Patch - RFC 6902)
    Author: Starcounter
    License: Open source (MIT)
    https://github.com/Starcounter-Jack/JSON-Patch
  • core-js (polyfills for ECMAScript 5, ECMAScript 6, promises, symbols, collections)
    Author: Denis Pushkarev
    License: Open source (MIT)
    https://github.com/zloirock/core-js
  • javascript-algorithms (implementation of linked list and merge sort)
    Author: Minko Gechev
    License: Open source (MIT)
    https://github.com/mgechev/javascript-algorithms