Charts & Data Visualization

React, drop-in

• ★ Recharts — composable, declarative, the default for shadcn-flavored charts. The shadcn/ui Charts component is built on Recharts.
• ★ Tremor — dashboard chart components on top of Recharts/Visx; Tailwind-native.
• Nivo — beautiful defaults, big component count.
• react-chartjs-2 — wrapper for Chart.js.

Lower-level / flexible

• ★ Visx (Airbnb) — d3 primitives wrapped as React components. Best when defaults aren't right.
• D3 — the foundation. Use directly for fully custom viz.
• ECharts + echarts-for-react — Apache ECharts; massive feature surface, great for enterprise dashboards.
• Plotly.js — large, scientific-grade, free for non-commercial in some configs.
• HighCharts — gorgeous, but commercial license required for non-personal use.

Mobile / cross-platform

• Victory Native — React Native charts.
• react-native-skia + chart libs — performant native charts.

Specialty

• OpenLayers, Leaflet, Mapbox GL JS, MapLibre GL — maps.
• Cytoscape.js — graph / network visualization.
• VisGL / deck.gl — WebGL-based geo visualization.
• AntV G2 / G6 — chart and graph libs from the Ant Design team.
• Apache ECharts WordCloud, Heatmap extensions — for non-default chart types.

Pick this if…

• Default dashboard charts: Recharts (especially with shadcn/ui Charts).
• Polished business dashboards quickly: Tremor.
• Custom / unusual charts: Visx.
• Enterprise feature breadth: ECharts.
• Maps: MapLibre GL (open source) or Mapbox GL (free tier).