chartjs/chart.js vs d3/d3
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, chart.js and d3 both show healthy maintenance signals. chart.js was committed to 3 days ago with 39+ active contributors, while d3 last saw a commit 3 months ago with 19+ active contributors. chart.js is MIT-licensed while d3 is ISC-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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chartjs/chart.js
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓39+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 23% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
d3/d3
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 55% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 3mo ago
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓ISC licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| chart.js | d3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 67,695 | 113,563 |
| Last commit | 3d ago | 3mo ago |
| License | MIT | ISC |
| Open issues | 584 | 20 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 23% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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