⚡ Build Tools

Build tools help web developers to build web, progressive web, and native apps and automate tasks such as code compilation, asset optimization, and dependency management.

According to our data, build tools are detected on 0.8% of all websites.
98.8% of these sites use only one build tool, 1.2% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading build tools on the web in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Gulp with an impressive share of 43.1%, followed by Swagger with 22.2% and Vite with 14.7%.

Gulp 43.1%
Swagger 22.2%
Vite 14.7%
Grunt 5.8%
Parcel 4.1%
Lovable 2.6%
PWABuilder 1.4%
Replit 1.1%
Bubble 1%
Magento PWA Studio 0.9%
Vite PWA 0.8%
Postman 0.8%
AWS Amplify 0.7%
WeWeb 0.4%
Other 0.4%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of tools that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Swagger is #1 in the United Kingdom ^(-1)

✨ Best Build Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 24 build tools we detect, ranked by their market share.

Available filters: API No-Code

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Gulp A toolkit that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow. FreeOpen source	43.1%
2	Swagger Somerville, Massachusetts, United States A set of open-source tools built around the OpenAPI Specification that can help you design, build, document, and consume REST APIs. FreeOpen source$19+/month	22.2%
3	Vite A fast, framework-agnostic frontend build tool from the creator of Vue.js. FreeOpen source	14.7%
4	Grunt San Francisco, California, United States A JavaScript task runner, a tool used to automatically perform frequent tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting. FreeOpen source	5.8%
5	Parcel A build tool for the web that compiles and transpiles JavaScript, compiles Sass and Less, has CSS module support, and automatically optimizes your entire app for production. FreeOpen source	4.1%
6	Lovable Dover, Delaware, United States An AI-powered platform that enables users to build full-stack web applications by describing their ideas in plain English. Free$20+/month	2.6%
7	PWABuilder Redmond, Washington, United States An open source tool that allows developers to package their Progressive Web Apps for publishing to various stores, including Microsoft, Google Play, Meta Quest, and the iOS App Store. FreeOpen source	1.4%
8	Replit Foster City, California, United States A browser-based coding platform with real-time collaboration, project sharing, and AI coding assistants that can build apps and websites with natural language prompts. Free$25+/month	1.1%
9	Bubble New York, United States A full-stack, no-code app development builder that lets you build websites and mobile apps using visual development tools. Free$32+/month	1%
10	Magento PWA Studio San Jose, California, United States A set of tools that enable developers to build complex Progressive Web Applications on top of Magento 2 stores. FreeOpen source	0.9%
11	Vite PWA Paris, France A zero-config plugin for Vite that enables the creation of Progressive Web Apps. FreeOpen source	0.8%
12	Postman San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based collaboration platform for API development that allows users to build, test, design, modify, and document APIs. Free$19+/user/month	0.8%
13	AWS Amplify Seattle, Washington, United States A set of cloud services and libraries that enable developers to quickly and easily build full-stack web and mobile apps. $$$	0.7%
14	WeWeb Paris, France A no-code, AI-powered web application builder that allows users to create full-stack web applications by describing what they want in plain English. Free$20+/month	0.4%
15	Oracle APEX Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise low-code development platform for developing and deploying cloud, mobile, and desktop applications. Free$122+/month	0.3%
16	Stencil.js Madison, Wisconsin, United States A a tool for building scalable, enterprise-ready Web Components using TypeScript and JSX. FreeOpen source	0.3%
17	Plasmic San Francisco, California, United States An open-source visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps. Free$49+/month	0.2%
18	Wappler Enschede, Netherlands A low-code software development platform that allows users to visually build responsive websites, mobile and desktop apps with no vendor lock-ins and complete hosting freedom. €19+/month	0.2%
19	Base44 Tel Aviv, Israel An AI-powered platform for building database-driven web applications using natural language prompts. Free$20+/month	0.1%
20	Expo Palo Alto, California, United States An open source platform for building native apps for Android, iOS, and the web with React and JavaScript. FreeOpen source$19+/month	0.1%
21	Adalo St. Louis, Missouri, United States A no-code app builder that allows you to build cross-platform apps and publish them as native apps, web apps, and progressive web apps. Free$45+/month	0.1%
22	FlutterFlow Mountain View, California, United States An AI-powered low-code platform that allows users to visually build cross-platform, native mobile and web applications based on the Flutter framework. Free$30+/month	0.1%
23	JHipster A full-stack development tool for rapidly generating, developing, and deploying front-end (Angular/React) and back-end code.	0.08%
24	Storybook A frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation that has a built-in feature to export as a static website. FreeOpen source	0.008%

👉 See Also

🔗 Links
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Data is based on the analysis of 3,040,870 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on February 3, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.