'autoskip' feature in chartjs, doesn't seem to be working.

Note: I have posted in stackoverflow already. Will close this if resolved on that side of things. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58526217/how-do-i-implement-the-autoskip-feature-in-chartjs

I am trying to use the autoSkip feature found here in the chart.js documentation:

https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/axes/cartesian/?h=autoskip

The issue I am having is my x-axes labels are overlapping (see above example). Everything I have read says this autoSkip feature should automatically skip overlapping labels. However, when setting this to both true or false, nothing seems to change in my chart.

<Line
    data={this.state.chartData}
    options={{
      elements: {
        point: {
          radius: 2
        }
      },
      tooltips: {
        mode: 'nearest',
        intersect: false
      },
      scales: {
        yAxes: [{
          ticks: {
            stepSize: 1, //sets the interval that our y axis counts by
            beginAtZero: false, //starts our graph at 0 if true
          },
          gridLines: {
            drawOnChartArea: false
          }
        }],
        xAxes: [{
          ticks: {
            minRotation: 88,
            autoskip: true,
            autoSkipPadding: 50
          },
          gridLines: {
            drawOnChartArea: false
          },
          type: 'time',
          distribution: 'series',
          time: {
            unit: 'day',
            displayFormats: {
              day: 'MMM D',

            },
            tooltipFormat: 'MMM D h:mm a',
          },
        },
        ]
      },
      responsive: true, //lets us resize our chart
      maintainAspectRatio: true,  //lets us resize our chart
    }
    }

  />

[benmccann]

Hi @Outlaw782. We’re just finishing up rewriting the auto-skip feature right now. Most of the code has already been committed and there are just a couple small PRs pending right now to fix some remaining rough edges. We’ll hopefully release 2.9.0 very soon where I’d expect this to work better

[benmccann]

Can you share an interactive example on something like plunkr?