Hi, I think gd.ui is pretty cool, but as once developing the dashboard, one can see limitations. Since the fall back seems to be executeAfm then I have to use a js charting library, like recharts?

Yes, for custom visualizations you can use other 3rd party libraries such as Recharts, d3.js, etc.

Just out of my curiosity, are dashboard plugins relevant here?

I'm not entirely sure what @Michael Serres is trying to accomplish here. If @Michael Serres is developing a new custom JavaScript application from scratch, then

@gooddata/create-gooddata-react-app

and <Execute /> with custom 3rd party libraries is (one of ) the way(s) to go. Then build and deploy. If @Michael Serres would rather utilize our Dashboards and only enhance some of our existing visualizations in the Dashboards environment, then they should begin with

npx @gooddata/plugin-toolkit dashboard-plugin init

and then again proceed with <Execute /> and 3rd party charting libraries. Then build, host and register in the Dashboards.

Clear, thanks. I will try both solutions above.