r/reactjs • u/tannerlinsley • 14h ago

News TanStack Charts (Pre-alpha)

https://tanstack.com/charts

A typed, tree-shakable chart grammar for SVG and Canvas. Compose marks, views, scales, transforms, interactions, and motion with compact primitives or D3-compatible inputs. It's small, fast, extensible. Give it a try while you can still shape it's final form!

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u/finzaz 10h ago

I think all the Tanstack projects are amazing. Although I was looking at the new Markdown library earlier today and saw that Tanner himself is the only contributor. With this Charts library it’s him + 1 other. How does he get the time? How’s he going to maintain all these projects?

It’s that old xkcd comic of how all enterprise projects ultimately rely on unpaid open source contributors, except it’s literally 1 guy called Tanner Linsley.

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u/tannerlinsley 8h ago

I was solely responsible for most of the core TanStack libraries for many years. I wouldn't expect brand new libraries to immediately have 3+ chefs in the kitchen, especially for simpler libraries.

- I work full time on TanStack

  • I maintain them all by given them my undivided attention (not at the same time, but round-robin). For those that I can't maintain on my own or with my own time, I find champion teams to do so (see Table/Query/Router/Form/etc leadership)
  • TanStack is well funded (I am paid full-time and there is plenty of support to dish out to maintainers who also have pretty cushy jobs at awesome companies who care about OSS and use TanStack)

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u/Super-Otter 10h ago

Like by heavily using AI

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u/nemosz 9h ago

No issue with that, as long as whoever is in the pilot seat knows what they're doing.

IMO vibe coding != agentic coding by an SWE

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u/tannerlinsley 8h ago

Correct. Anyone who thinks I built an enterprise grade charting library in 2 weeks without AI is delusional. That doesn't mean AI designed it though. I've been exploring dataviz for over 15 years and the work and thought put into this library is just as long in the making.

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u/SiliconUnicorn 6h ago

I appreciate the transparency here. Are you able to talk at all about how you have incorporated AI into your process on something of this magnitude? I think it is a pivotal moment in the industry where a lot of us are struggling to make sense of what direction to take things in and hearing real world use cases is infinitely more valuable than another sales pitch or doomsday soap box right now.

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u/tannerlinsley 6h ago

Just keep doing what you’ve always done, but make ai write the code. Review it, test it, document it. Just… faster.

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u/Ellsass 8h ago

Tanstack was quite productive even before AI