🆚 HLS.js vs. ReactPlayer
- 📈 HLS.js is much more popular than ReactPlayer.
- 🌎 HLS.js is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 ReactPlayer is more popular in the Faroe Islands.
HLS.jsType
About
HLS.js is a 
JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. .
ReactPlayer is a 
React media player component that enables playback of videos and audio from file URLs and multiple online platforms.
It supports 
YouTube, 
Facebook, 
Twitch, 
Vimeo, HLS, DASH, and other media sources, automatically loads only the required player for each source, offers light mode that displays a thumbnail until playback begins, and supports picture-in-picture, custom controls, and extensible custom players.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the Netherlands in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Japan in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in India in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
MediaElement.js
Video.js
Dailymotion company profile🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.