🆚 Babel vs. Core-js
- 📈 Core-js is four times more popular than Babel.
- 🌎 Core-js is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Babel is more popular in Russia, Poland, and China.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Babel
Core-jsType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Babel is a 
JavaScript compiler mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ (ES6) code into an older JavaScript (ES5) version to maximize browser compatibility.
Core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript that provides polyfills for ECMAScript up to 2024: promises, symbols, collections, iterators, typed arrays, and proposals.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #119
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #50
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Core-js JavaScript library is 4 times more popular than Babel.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Core-js is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Babel is more popular in Russia, Poland, and China.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
Canada
Australia
Brazil
France
Italy
India
Awards
- ⬆️ 64th most popular in Singapore in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 71st most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 83rd most popular in Sweden in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 86th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 92nd most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in Costa Rica in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Israel in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in Canada in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in New Zealand in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Core-js is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Babel is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, real estate, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Recreation/Hobbies
Real Estate
Sports
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Picturefill🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.