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lightweight-charts vs gojs

Charts and data visualisationPackage data 25 Sept 2026
lightweight-chartsv5.2.1, 12 Aug 2026

Performant financial charts built with HTML5 canvas

$ npm install lightweight-charts
gojsv4.0.4, 14 Sept 2026

Interactive diagrams, charts, and graphs, such as trees, flowcharts, orgcharts, UML, BPMN, or business diagrams

$ npm install gojs
Metriclightweight-chartsgojsDifference
Weekly downloads761,677150,805lightweight-charts 5.1x higher
12-month download growth+418%+100%lightweight-charts +318 pts
Gzip size---
Minified size---
Dependencies10lightweight-charts 1 more
Unpacked size3.0 MB7.8 MBlightweight-charts 2.7x smaller
Latest release5.2.1, 12 Aug 20264.0.4, 14 Sept 2026gojs 33 days more recent
Releases, last 12 months4--
First published28 May 2019--
GitHub stars17,3508,485lightweight-charts 2.0x higher
Open issues1140lightweight-charts 114 more
Open pull requests170lightweight-charts 17 more
Contributors---
Commits, last 52 weeks32819lightweight-charts 17.3x higher
TypeScript typesBundledBundledSame
Module formatESM onlyESM + CommonJSDiffers
Runtimes---
LicenseApache-2.0SEE LICENSE IN license.htmlDiffers

Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.

lightweight-charts761.7k latest weekgojs150.8k latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
Weekly npm downloads, 52 weeks. Y axis starts at zero. Values are not smoothed.

lightweight-charts

Major versions
  1. 1.0.08 Jul 2019
  2. 2.0.025 Feb 2020
  3. 3.0.011 Jun 2020
  4. 4.0.08 Feb 2023
  5. 5.0.02 Jan 2025
Last 5 releases
  1. 5.2.112 Aug 2026
  2. 5.2.024 Apr 2026
  3. 5.1.016 Dec 2025
  4. 5.0.91 Oct 2025
  5. 5.0.826 Jun 2025
50 releases in total, 4 in the last 12 months

gojs

Major versions
  1. -
Last 5 releases
  1. -
Release count not fetched
lightweight-charts

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gojs

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lightweight-charts

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gojs

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  • Need no runtime dependenciesgojs (lightweight-charts has 1, gojs has 0)
  • Need both ESM and CommonJS entry pointsgojs (lightweight-charts: ESM only; gojs: ESM + CommonJS)
  • Need to load it with require()gojs
  • Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
  • Need the more recent releasegojs (4.0.4 on 14 Sept 2026 vs 5.2.1 on 12 Aug 2026)
  • Higher weekly npm downloadslightweight-charts (761.7k vs 150.8k)
  • Licenselightweight-charts: Apache-2.0; gojs: SEE LICENSE IN license.html

Each line is generated from the data above.

gojs: gojs npm registry, gojs npm downloads, gojs GitHub, gojs jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.