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Chart.js

Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag

From chartjs·Updated June 15, 2026·View on GitHub·

Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2013. It has gained significant community traction with 67,497 stars and 11,944 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: canvas, chart, graph, html5, html5-charts.

Latest release: v4.5.1
October 13, 2025View Changelog →
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Documentation

All the links point to the new version 4 of the lib.

In case you are looking for an older version of the docs, you will have to specify the specific version in the url like this: https://www.chartjs.org/docs/2.9.4/

Contributing

Instructions on building and testing Chart.js can be found in the documentation. Before submitting an issue or a pull request, please take a moment to look over the contributing guidelines first. For support, please post questions on Stack Overflow with the chart.js tag.

License

Chart.js is available under the MIT license.

Contributors

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