Ui_chart alternate (Apex chart ?) Just want the zoom feature in the graph

I am not template node literate
The example given has the data built in the template node itself. I need to generate a line graph with external data. Will take me for ever to decipher that.
I was also exploring the same in another thread where a node was used to draw a graph, but i could not understand how to feed the data and what syntax was used. The creator of node has not been active since many years. So dead end.

https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-uplot-chart-from-stored-data-mysql-moved-to-grafana-iframe-now/75685?u=smanjunath211

I ended up using grafana with an i frame. But it has its own drawbacks.

So ...