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Composable charting components for React — build line, bar, pie, and area charts from SVG with a declarative JSX API.
High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF and TIFF images
| Metric | recharts | sharp |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm | npm |
| Difficulty | Beginner ✓ | Intermediate |
| Weekly downloads | 3.2M | 55.8M↑ |
| Latest version | v2.15.0 | v0.34.5 |
| Recipes | 1 | 2↑ |
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Dashboards, analytics pages, standard business charts in React apps, any time you want good-looking charts without a steep learning curve.
Use Sharp for image resizing, format conversion (JPEG to WebP/AVIF), thumbnail generation, watermarking, and metadata extraction in Node.js. It's the standard choice for image processing in server-side Next.js, image CDN backends, and upload pipelines.
Custom/unusual visualizations (use d3), non-React projects (use Chart.js), performance-critical charts with 100k+ data points (Canvas-based charts are faster).
Sharp is a native module — it requires native binaries and can complicate deployment in serverless environments. For Cloudflare Workers or edge functions, use the Cloudflare Images API or Vercel's built-in image optimisation instead.
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