Choosing a chart component is not always an easy task.

Sometimes you need a special type of chart to make sense of the numbers you want to display. At the same time, you want the charts to be beautiful, customizable, responsive, easy to implement,.. 🤯

We have collected our favourite Vue.js chart components in this article. We will update this collection with new components, as usual! If you think an important and great component is missing, just shoot me an e-mail (armin@nifty.at).

last updated: June 9, 2020

JSCharting

JSCharting is one of the dinosaurs in the field of Javascript Charts. They have almost 2 decades of experience with data visualizations! Their charting library is pretty extensive and versatile with over 150 types including Org charts and maps.

They offer an official wrapper component for Vue (and also React).

Check out their gallery showing off all chart types and a lot of examples for features like smart annotations and labels, different layouts, dynamic charts or interactivity.

Syncfusion Vue Charts

Syncfusion's charts are part of their extensive UI library. They offer 30+ interactive chart types from simple line charts to correlation charts or box plots.

The control is performance-optimized and even supports real-time charts and lazy loading. Other features are zooming and panning, tooltips, legends, annotations, and out of the box image or PDF export.

If you want to use Syncfusion's Vue Charts, check out their free community license for individuals and smaller companies.

Vue Trend

Vue Trend is as simple as it gets – it's an animated spark line. Just that! It works great as kind of a background visualization to show your users a trend over time.

Highcharts

Highcharts is one of the most-used Javascript Charting Libraries. Giants like Microsoft, Facebook or IBM are using them, as they are versatile and can also be implemented very editor-friendly into any CMS. They have been around for more than 10 years (since 2009).

There's an official Vue wrapper for the library, making them even easier to use in your next project.

ZingCharts

ZingCharts is a JS charting library that offers an official Vue component wrapping all their functionality.

They offer 35+ chart types that you can customize easily. Features like zooming, scrolling, tooltips, crosshairs, multi-axis visualizations and polling for real-time data help you make your charts interactive.

If you want an impression of what can be done with their library, you can visit their demo gallery where you'll find some pretty advanced visualizations from heatmaps to chord charts. (We love this interactive chart about games! 😍)

If you need your charts to be extra sturdy across browsers, get this: They support back to IE6.

Vue ECharts

ECharts is an interactive charting library providing a lot of data visualization options – Vue ECharts is its Vue Adaptation. Besides bar and pie charts, you can also create more complex charts like Polar Plots, Maps or Radar Charts.

Frappe Charts

These charts are inspired by GitHub! You can f.ex. create the famous Month-Wise Heatmap with this component. All charts are SVGs and the library has zero dependencies.

vue-chartjs

Chart.js aims to be a simple yet flexible charting library for designers & developers. This simple HTML5 Charting library got a Vue.js wrapper with vue-chartjs.

If you quickly need ready-to-use charts this is a nice choice for you! You can use (and mix-and-match) 8 different chart types with chart.js – all of them animated and customisable.

Vue Morris

Morris.js is a very simple API for drawing line, bar, area and donut charts. This is their Vue.js wrapper!

Vue Apexcharts

ApexCharts is an open-source charting library that helps you build interactive charts and visualizations. It has very interesting features like built-in Zooming and Panning, as well as an export function for your charts.

While it’s not exactly a lightweight library, the added loading time may pay off if you work with data-heavy visualizations. They offer an official Vue Component for their library!