chartjs/Chart.js
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
67.7k stars · 12k forks · JavaScript
Caution
Caution: the median first response takes over 30 days.
Why
- Maintainers took a median of 48 days to first respond to 10 recent issues. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
What would change this
- Maintainers reply faster, with a median under 30 days.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 5
- Human commits, 90 days
- 6
- Human commits, 365 days
- 12
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 43%
- Last commit
- Oct 3, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 3, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 4
- Last release
- Oct 13, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 24 hours
Responsiveness: of 10 recent issues, 10% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 48 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 12 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 3
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 6
- Contributors
- 426
Top committers
- LeeLenaleee: 25% of commits
- jakezwang: 17% of commits
- joshkel: 17% of commits
- asmenezes: 8% of commits
- danielgindi: 8% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jun 29, 2014 to Jul 15, 2014: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 353 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 30, 2014 to Oct 2, 2014: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 24, 2016 to May 10, 2016: about 2.5k more stars than usual, peak 738 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Jun 3, 2018 to Jun 7, 2018: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 3, 2021 to Apr 5, 2021: about 326 more stars than usual, peak 160 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 15, 2022 to Dec 18, 2022: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 4, 2023 to Aug 5, 2023: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 8 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- chart.js (NPM): latest 4.5.1, published Oct 13, 2025
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.8 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/chartjs/Chart.js)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2