🆚 jQuery UI vs. Shoelace

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 jQuery UI is much more popular than Shoelace.
🌍 jQuery UI is more popular in all countries.

Type

User interface framework

Website component

About

jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library.

It includes components such as accordions, datepickers, dialogs, sliders, and tabs, and supports theming through ThemeRoller.

Shoelace is a framework-agnostic library of production-ready web user interface components built entirely with native Web Component standards, ensuring consistent design and behavior across any JavaScript framework or none at all.

It provides developers with a full collection of standardized elements, such as buttons, dialogs, and sliders, that are accessible and easily styled using standard CSS.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

jqueryui.com #60,265

shoelace.style #448,105

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #2

UI Frameworks › Rank #29

Components › Rank #18

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

JQuery UI technology is 949 times more popular than Shoelace.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

jQuery UI is more popular than Shoelace in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

Italy

France

Australia

India

Brazil

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Korea in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Israel in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in El Salvador in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Jersey in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Somalia in the UI Frameworks category.

⭐ 5th most popular in Taiwan in the Components category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Taiwan in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Components category.
🔥 16th most popular in Germany in the Components category.
🔥 17th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Components category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

jQuery UI is more popular than Shoelace in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Travel

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Health

Entertainment

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

p**nhub.com

#26

stackoverflow.com

#101

epfindia.gov.in

#126

#167

#221

Name

Rank

developers.cloudflare.com

#5,028

#7,028

#10,204

atlasobscura.com

#12,730

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See also

Shoelace technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 31, 2026.
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