Chartjs datalabels is not showing the labels on the bar chart

I have a vertical bar chart built via chartjs. I'm using the datalabels plugin, I expect the data to be plotted on each bar but it's not visible

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const data = [
    {
        "date": "2023-02-23",
        "subscribers": 1208123
    },
    {
        "date": "2023-02-22",
        "subscribers": 1045338
    },
    {
        "date": "2023-02-21",
        "subscribers": 1043130
    },
    {
        "date": "2023-02-20",
        "subscribers": 1248035
    },
    {
        "date": "2023-02-19",
        "subscribers": 1243734
    },
    {
        "date": "2023-02-18",
        "subscribers": 1240317
    },
    {
        "date": "2023-02-17",
        "subscribers": 1033439
    },
    {
        "date": "2023-02-16",
        "subscribers": 974864
    }
];
  const chart_label = "Number of subscribers";

 const chart_canvas = document
      .getElementById("number_of_messages_delivered")
      .getContext("2d");
    Chart.defaults.set("plugins.datalabels", {
      color: "#FE777B",
    });
    push_messages_chart = new Chart(chart_canvas, {
      type: "bar",
      options: {
        animation: true,
        plugins: {
          // Change options for ALL labels of THIS CHART
          datalabels: {
            color: "#FFCE56",
            display: true, // Set to true to display the labels
          },
        },
      },
      data: {
        labels: data.map((row) => row.date),
        datasets: [
          {
            label: chart_label,
            data: data.map((row) => row.subscribers),
          },
        ],
      },
    });

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<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@3.0.0/dist/chart.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chartjs-plugin-datalabels/2.2.0/chartjs-plugin-datalabels.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="number_of_messages_delivered"></canvas>

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I tried different iterations since last week, but nothing worked. This is just a random sample of what I've tried

You forgot to initialize the plugin!

Add this:

Chart.register(ChartDataLabels);

Some additional info / improvements

• The color of the datalabels should be inside the labels.value object. I've moved that so the lables are the correct color (#FFCE56)

• The color on the dataset should be backgroundColor, changed that as well

• I've implemented a formatter on the label with the use of this question on how to apply thousand-seperators, just to make it more readable (again).

  formatter: n => numberWithCommas(n),
  

Updated Snippet

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const data = [{"date": "2023-02-23", "subscribers": 1208123 }, {"date": "2023-02-22", "subscribers": 1045338 }, {"date": "2023-02-21", "subscribers": 1043130 }, {"date": "2023-02-20", "subscribers": 1248035 }, {"date": "2023-02-19", "subscribers": 1243734 }, {"date": "2023-02-18", "subscribers": 1240317 }, {"date": "2023-02-17", "subscribers": 1033439 }, {"date": "2023-02-16", "subscribers": 974864 } ]; 
const chart_label = "Number of subscribers";
Chart.register(ChartDataLabels); // Enable plugin
const chart_canvas = document
.getElementById("number_of_messages_delivered")
.getContext("2d");
push_messages_chart = new Chart(chart_canvas, {
type: "bar",
options: {
animation: true,
plugins: {
// Change options for ALL labels of THIS CHART
datalabels: {
formatter: n => numberWithCommas(n),
display: true, // Set to true to display the labels
labels: {
value: {
color: "#FFCE56"
}
} 
}
},
},
data: {
labels: data.map((row) => row.date),
datasets: [
{
label: chart_label,
data: data.map((row) => row.subscribers),
backgroundColor: "#FE777B",
},
],
},
});
function numberWithCommas(x) {
return x.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");
}

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<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@3.0.0/dist/chart.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chartjs-plugin-datalabels/2.2.0/chartjs-plugin-datalabels.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="number_of_messages_delivered"></canvas>

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