Prevent Recharts Tick Marks from Overlapping - javascript

I am developing an application which allows a user to select dynamically queried data which can then be used in Recharts visualizations. There are certain edge cases where the default formatting / rendering within recharts produces an ugly result. For example, if there are many unique values passed to the <XAxis /> component then the chart produced will likely have overlapping text for the ticks.
There does not seem to be any good "render as many ticks as possible, without overlapping" option described in the documentation. These appear to be the only options:
Render all ticks (obviously leads to too many ticks)
<XAxis
dataKey={xAxisField.name}
name={getXAxisLabel(xAxisField, chartType)}
tickFormatter={
getMetaDataType(xAxisField) ===
"DATE"
? tickEpochFormatter // force numbers to be displayed as 'YYYY-MM-DD'
: tickNumberFormatter
}
allowDataOverflow={false}
ticks={xValues.sort()} // gets all of the values
interval={0} // display all of values, instead of the default 5
angle={-90} // force text to be 90, reading towards the graph
textAnchor="end" // rather than setting "dy={50}" or something
>
Render only the start / end / start & end, which depends (seemingly) entirely on the width of the text, prior to rotation.
<XAxis
dataKey={xAxisField.name}
name={getXAxisLabel(xAxisField, chartType)}
tickFormatter={
getMetaDataType(xAxisField) ===
"DATE"
? tickEpochFormatter // force numbers to be displayed as 'YYYY-MM-DD'
: tickNumberFormatter
}
allowDataOverflow={false}
ticks={xValues.sort()} // gets all of the values
interval="preserveStart" // ensure that everything can be read, giving preference to the "left"???
angle={-90} // force text to be 90, reading towards the graph
textAnchor="end" // rather than setting "dy={50}" or something
>
Hardcode the number of intervals to ensure a maximum? I'm not sure if this is a viable option since I would need to know how many ticks are truly overlapping. Just seems like a crude approach.
Is it even possible to have Recharts render as many things as possible, even if they are rotated 90 degrees, and then selectively choose what has enough space to display? Is it possible to have the angle property dynamically update based on the length of the tick mark texts?
Here is a list of links, none of which seems to answer these questions:
Recharts Docs
Recharts XAxis Docs
Recharts LineChartAxisInterval Docs
Github Recharts repo
Show all ticks
Vertical Axis Label
Rotated Axis Labels
Rotate tick text
Axis Labels Display Over Data
Axis Labels Look Awful
Last XAxis label not aligned with tick mark when rotated -45 degrees
Prevent hiding of tick labels
Missing ticks on x-axis
Long strings in labels generate overlap in YAxis for horizontal barchart
StackOverflow Posts
Scalable YAxis Label
Display all XAxis ticks
YAxis Ticks don't auto calculate
Set Label Margin
Here's a picture of the problematic rendering I want to clean up:
Also, please note that normally I would prefer to stick to the same library that I have been using, but if another library is better suited for this use-case, I would like to consider switching!

I had the same problem, ended up removing the interval property which set the ticks to be sort-of-dynamic but had only 4 or 5 ticks.
So I set the minTickGap to some negative value. the result was that more ticks appeared on the axis
<XAxis dataKey="date"
angle={45}
dx={15}
dy={20}
minTickGap={-200}
axisLine={false}/>
before
after:

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