This repository is currently inactive but we're looking for maintainers

[chrisirhc]

We have decided to deprecate this library as we don't have an active maintainer.
If you'd like to take take ownership, please feel free to fork or discuss over here.

( #1248 (comment) )

[thisis-Shitanshu]

Hi @chrisirhc and @gergelyke react-viz have been an amazing library for a lot of my projects. It's sad that there's no active maintainer for such an awesome library, but rather than seeing this library being deprecated I like ownership of this project.
I firmly believe this library still has a lot of potentials for being one of the best charting libraries for all applications, mobile, and web, and desktops build with react.
Please do let me know how can I take this awesome project further!

[dev-chr]

This really is too bad. This library has some weakness like any library. Like @thisis-Shitanshu comment, this library has incredible potential. I am wondering now why Uber wasn't investing in this library... is there something better they found?

[mcnuttandrew]

There's an increasing trend in visualization libraries to shift away from imperative visualization declaration (e.g. put this circle here) to declarative declarations (gimmie an x/y plot with circles). While react-vis has always been a little towards the latter it doesn't feature the rich grammar of graphics style declarations that libraries like ggplot or vega-lite/altair feature. It's hard to see it go, but it's also very much a visualization library of a particular era (specifically the react-ify-everything-stylings of 2015-6). I definitely still find myself using react-vis a reasonable amount, but more and more I also find myself using vega-embed/react-vega and the like.

[chrisirhc]

@thisis-Shitanshu you can help by playing a maintainer role and reviewing the PRs.
Our repository has always been open for help on the maintainer role, but nobody has stepped in to play this role despite its popularity. (@mcnuttandrew has been playing this role for a while but he no longer has the bandwidth to do so. Thanks @mcnuttandrew !)

I am wondering now why Uber wasn't investing in this library... is there something better they found?

We simply don't have the resources to do so. Nobody in the company has stepped up to take ownership as a maintainer.

[thisis-Shitanshu]

@chrisirhc I have always admired @mcnuttandrew 's work, his contributions have been a huge inspiration for me. I understand it takes a lot of time and effort to be a maintainer for such a huge project but if nobody is stepping in to maintain this awesome project, rather than see it being depreciated I would love to volunteer and take ownership of this project as a maintainer. I will contribute my time in reviewing PRs and add features to this library so it always stands as one of the best charting libraries.

[chrisirhc]

@thisis-Shitanshu I've sent you an invite for push rights so you have permissions to move ahead to take actions as a maintainer.
Happy to chat with you if you'd like to chat about next steps. I've dropped an email in your inbox.

[thisis-Shitanshu]

@chrisirhc Thank you so much for the invite!
This is a huge opportunity for me, to be part of such an awesome project.

Whenever convenient for you, I would absolutely love to chat about the next steps.
I will be needing all the help I can get!

[krushanu]

This is one of my favourite visualization libs. Could you please also add me as a collaborator/maintainer. So that I can also share or push my code and features that I have used in my project which is built on top of React-Vis.
Please update if you have found anything new as a replacement of this Lib?
Requesting again to add as a collaborator.

[zachguo]

There's an increasing trend in visualization libraries to shift away from imperative visualization declaration (e.g. put this circle here) to declarative declarations (gimmie an x/y plot with circles). While react-vis has always been a little towards the latter it doesn't feature the rich grammar of graphics style declarations that libraries like ggplot or vega-lite/altair feature.

That's actually why I love react-vis. The APIs are lower level than other charting libraries, and are closer to how one creates a chart via raw svg elements, less magic involved. I feel the intended users are web developers instead of data scientists with a background in R. I really hope react-vis would stay 'low-level', focus on composability and don't go the declarative route.

[chrisirhc]

@krushanu me and @thisis-Shitanshu are chatting.
Please reach out to me via email and we can chat about next steps.

[shantp]

I really enjoyed using this library on a recent project before reading about the deprecation. Has there been progress on the new maintainers ?