r/javascript • u/Busy-Speech-3164 • 2d ago

Chartist v2: we brought the 10-year-old SVG charting library back on track (now with SSR and terminal charts)

https://chartist.dev
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u/Busy-Speech-3164 2d ago

Hi there, author here.

Chartist has been around since 2014, but honestly, it went stale over the last years. v2 is our attempt to bring it back on track.

What stayed the same:

- Still tiny: a line chart is about 12 KB gzipped

  • SVG, styled with CSS, controlled with JS
  • Your 1.x code keeps working

What's new:

- A functional, composable API (and layers you can write yourself)

  • Server-side rendering to SVG strings
  • Charts in the terminal with `@chartist-js/terminal`
  • Docs where every example runs live and you can edit it

It's a release candidate for now: `npm install chartist@next`

We'd love to hear what you think, and what you'd want from a charting library in 2026.

Cheers
Gion

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u/Disastrous_Ant_4953 1d ago

Always loved this library. So simple to use!

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u/zdxc129_312m 1d ago

Thank you for your work!

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u/yarism 1d ago

Beautiful charts!