vis-network
Dynamic browser-based visualization library for network and graph data.
Charts and data visualisation npm (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
How vis-network is used
vis-network joined the catalog on its public numbers (452,836 downloads a week on npm and 3,634 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 6 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Mermaid (67 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (66.7%), ESLint (83.3%), Zod (66.7%).
vis-network popularity over time
Gid Score 40: downloads 56, use in agent projects 10, GitHub stars 33, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with vis-network
| Vitest | 66.7% of vis-network projects · 3.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| ESLint | 83.3% of vis-network projects · 2.3× more than average |
| Zod | 66.7% of vis-network projects · 2.7× more than average |
| TypeScript | 100.0% of vis-network projects · 1.8× more than average |
| Base UI | 33.3% of vis-network projects · 16.4× more than average |
| Firebase | 33.3% of vis-network projects · 21.1× more than average |
| Google APIs Client Library | 33.3% of vis-network projects · 28.3× more than average |
| react-markdown | 33.3% of vis-network projects · 8.5× more than average |
How vis-network is funded
Open Collective: vis.js
| Received, last 12 months | $124 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $145 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $4,986 |
| Raised since the start | $6,802 · $1,817 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $11 · $11 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -38% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 7 |
Top company backers all time, 30 companies in total
| Ctrl O | $1,200 since May 2020 |
|---|---|
| Metacognitive Technology LLC | $660 since Apr 2020 |
| Faithlife | $500 since Dec 2019 |
| cmplid:// | $500 since Nov 2020 |
| Kurusugawa Computer Inc. | $400 since Jan 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Mar 2018. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund vis-network
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install vis-network |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (4), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | mrjw717/obsidian-code-graph |
Alternatives to vis-network
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside vis-network are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mermaid npm Markdown-like syntax for creating flowcharts, diagrams, and visualizations programmatically. |
75 | 67 (1.4%) | 11M | 90.8K | MIT |
| XY Flow npm Customizable React library for building interactive node-based editors and flow charts. |
72 | 58 (1.2%) | 8.3M | 38.7K | MIT |
| D3.js npm JavaScript library for creating data-driven documents with powerful data visualization capabilities. |
75 | 42 (0.9%) | 13.8M | 114K | ISC |
| Apache ECharts npm Powerful interactive charting library for data visualization in browsers. |
67 | 26 (0.5%) | 3.6M | 67.6K | Apache-2.0 |
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