🆚 Knockout vs. React

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Frontend framework
Frontend framework

About

Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) library that helps developers create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML.

It features declarative bindings between data and UI, observable properties with automatic dependency tracking, computed observables, a built-in templating system, and efficient incremental DOM updates.

React is a popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook.

It allows developers to create reusable UI components, offers JSX markup support, a virtual DOM, hooks, and is often used as a base for other full-stack frameworks such as Next.js or Remix.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Frontend Frameworks › Rank #7
Frontend Frameworks › Rank #1
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #77
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The React frontend framework is 15 times more popular than Knockout.
Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks
JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

React is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Knockout is more popular in San Marino.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
India
France
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
Italy
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

React is more popular than Knockout in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Travel
Sports
Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#2,435
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See also

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