https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/charts/ Recent content in Charts on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-08-20-react-charting-libraries-recharts-visx-react-chartjs-2-comparison/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-08-20-react-charting-libraries-recharts-visx-react-chartjs-2-comparison/ <p>Every dashboard starts with a bar chart and ends with a crisis. The first chart takes an afternoon. Six months later, the dashboard has twenty visualizations, the tooltip library is fighting the animation library, and your bundle is a slow, janky monster that product managers screenshot on good days and curse on bad ones. The root cause is almost always the same: the charting library was picked for a single chart, not for the next three years of dashboards. In 2026 the React ecosystem has three serious contenders — <strong>recharts (27,509 stars), visx (21,007 stars), and react-chartjs-2 (6,941 stars)</strong> — and they represent three completely different philosophies of how to build visualizations.</p>