A good charting library makes all the difference when adding visual data to your JavaScript apps. Recharts is one of the better ones, built just for React.

This includes 6 core chart types (line, bar, radar, polar, pie and doughnut), each in its own module, so you can even load only the ones your project needs, making your footprint even smaller.

We often hear that we should use line plots for trends over time. This post shows an example where a line (or area) chart doesn't work and once again suggests thinking about your data and the ...