recharts VS react-vis

We first build the dashboard page where we present stats for relevant KPIs in cards, charts and a table. We use the React-based Recharts library for plotting our data.

Hi all, I am one of the (few) current maintainers of the relatively popular recharts charting library.

This library has more than 20K stars on GitHub and more than 1.3 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.

Recharts is another React charting library that simplifies creating charts by providing a wide range of chart components out of the box. It is built on top of D3.js but abstracts away the complexities, making it easier for React developers to create interactive and visually appealing charts and graphs. Recharts leverage the power of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) for rendering, allowing charts to be scalable and fit on any screen size.

Recharts is a charting library that allows you to create attractive and informative data visualizations.

The next scene I had in mind was an animated pie chart. There are so many charting libraries around that I was sure one of them would fit my needs. The pie chart below was rendered using recharts, utilizing its mount animation. To get the results, I recorded my screen like the first scene.

This is the last integration of this article, and maybe the most fun! A dashboard cannot be considered complete unless we show a chart or diagram to visually display information. For this part of the demo, we’ll use mui for the components and recharts for the graphs.

I built the bot off a typescript discordjs template I found on Replit.com. The Dashboard is built with Wasp (a full-stack React and ExpressJS framework that makes prototyping super quick) and with [recharts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/recharts) (a sexy charts package built on top of D3js). On the backend, I do a lot of work to the data to be able to pass it in different categories to the frontend

Install react-vis by using the following command:

I've heard good things about Uber's react-vis https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-vis

D3.js is great for custom data viz. You can get started by including the library in a script tag and not have to mess around with a bundler like Webpack until you are ready and just use plane CSS. D3.js doesn't work well with JS frameworks like React - it was jQuery like DOM manipulation functions. I find the best approach is to let D3 manage its chart and leave React for the UI. Or you can use a more React friendly library like React Viz from Uber. While D3 is great for custom data viz it's time consuming for standard charts. There are a lot of charting libraries out there like Chart.js. There is also Plot which is built on D3.js.

React Vis averages 100,000+ weekly downloads, 8.3k stars and 850 forks on Github.

react-vis

I am trying to use react-vis library in my project. In their readme file, they have asked to import library by adding following lines in non-node environment:

I had an existing working react code written in Typescript (and hence ES6) using react-vis library. The library itself seem to use ES6.

I have referenced react-vis library form unpkg as stated in their github repo:

The repository can be found here and is definitely worth taking a look.

react-vis - Data visualization library based on React and d3.