One week, five charts
The small modelling decision that made adding new chart types almost trivial.
This kicks off a short series on how we think about widget architecture at Chronicle — how each widget is modelled, what we got right, and what we’d change if we started over. First up: charts.
Nothing groundbreaking here. Just one small modelling decision that quietly compounds every time we ship something new — the kind of choice that turns “add a new chart type” from a project into an afternoon.
In one week we added five new charts on top of it, almost trivially. This post is about that decision and why it paid off.
Read the full write-up on Substack for the walkthrough and demos.