tradingview/lightweight-charts
Performant financial charts built with HTML5 canvas
About the project
A library for rendering interactive financial charts on HTML5 canvas. Suits embedding stock quotes and other time series into web pages without hurting performance.
Useful for
- Build an interactive stock price chart on a dashboard
- Replace static PNG charts on a page with interactive ones
- Write a custom plugin for a custom data series
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 5 stars so far today, about 14 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 3× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #15, +31 stars.
- About 9 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 17,452
- Today
- 5 · ≈ 14 by evening
- Forks
- 2,631
- Issues and pull requests
- 1,838
- Watchers
- 210
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- plugins-2026-09-16 · September 16, 2026
- Created
- May 24, 2019
- Last push
- October 2, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 2, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #15, +31 stars
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