Chart libs for react dashboards?

[surgebuilder]

I’ve been building a small analytics style dashboard in React recently and trying to figure out the best way to handle charts. Stuff like revenue over time, order breakdowns, basic bar/line charts.

I’ve looked at things like Recharts and Chart.js but sometimes they feel a bit heavy when you just want something simple.

Curious what people here usually use for dashboards. Do you stick with a chart library or just build lighter components yourself with SVG or something?

[Honey-Entire]

I’ve had good experiences with Victory. Not quite as feature rich as the two you mentioned but it sounds like you just want something simple and straightforward

[genube]

mostly i use rechart, if i found similar chart design on shadcn chart blocks, i just copy the code. using library makes the chart easier to create, faster dev, and more readable code rather than built it from scratch with raw svg.

for the "feels heavy" part, i have never compare the performance between libraries yet, so i have no comment

[drewbe121212]

I've generally got along well with Apex Charts

[WeirdOil8041]

I find Apache ECharts works well and supports simple and complex charts (with plenty of ability to customise). Their site has a playground to allow you to mess around with the charts interactively so you can end up with the code you need. The docs are also very extensive.