⚡ Frontend Frameworks in the United Kingdom

Frontend frameworks are libraries that simplify the development of the client-side of web applications by providing reusable components and structured patterns for building interactive user interfaces.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, frontend frameworks are used on 10.8% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top frontend frameworks in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is React, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 53.4% share.
It is followed by Vue.js with 15.3% and Next.js with 11.8%.

React 53.4%
Vue.js 15.3%
Next.js 11.8%
Alpine.js 10.4%
Knockout 7.8%
Backbone.js 7.1%
Nuxt 3.4%
AngularJS 2.6%
Angular 2.1%
Livewire 1.2%
Stimulus 0.9%
Svelte 0.8%
Inertia.js 0.4%
Ember.js 0.4%
Remix 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top frameworks that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. Knockout ^(-2)
10. Livewire ^(-1)
14. Ember.js ^(-1)
15. Remix ^(-2)
17. Blazor ^(-1)
18. Quasar ^(-2)
19. Riot ^(-3)
21. Marionette ^(-3)
22. Uni-app ^(-6)
23. Qwik ^(-8)

✨ Best Frontend Frameworks

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 38 frontend frameworks used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	53.4%
2	Vue.js A progressive JavaScript framework that allows developers to create user interfaces using components, reactive data binding, and a virtual DOM. FreeOpen source	15.3%
3	Next.js San Francisco, California, United States A React framework for building full-stack web applications that offers server-side rendering, static site generation, file-based routing, and built-in API routes. FreeOpen source	11.8%
4	Alpine.js Buffalo, New York, United States A minimal JavaScript framework that lets developers add reactive behavior directly in HTML markup using attributes and magic properties without needing a build tool. FreeOpen source	10.4%
5	Knockout A JavaScript MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) library that helps developers create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML. FreeOpen source	7.8%
6	Backbone.js A JavaScript framework that adds structure to web applications by implementing the MVC pattern. FreeOpen source	7.1%
7	Nuxt San Francisco, California, United States An open-source framework based on Vue.js that enables developers to build full-stack web applications and websites using conventions like file-based routing, automatic component imports, and type-safe support out of the box. FreeOpen source	3.4%
8	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
9	Angular Mountain View, California, United States An open-source single-page web application framework, a successor to AngularJS, developed by Google. FreeOpen source	2.1%
10	Livewire Buffalo, New York, United States A full-stack framework for Laravel that allows developers to build dynamic user interface components using PHP and Blade templates without writing front-end JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.2%
11	Stimulus Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript framework designed to enhance static or server-rendered HTML by connecting JavaScript controller classes to DOM elements via data attributes. FreeOpen source	0.9%
12	Svelte An open-source component-based front-end framework that compiles components into efficient JavaScript at build time, avoiding a virtual DOM and minimizing runtime workload. FreeOpen source	0.8%
13	Inertia.js New York, United States A toolkit for building single-page applications with React, Vue.js, or Svelte while keeping classic server-side routing and controllers. FreeOpen source	0.4%
14	Ember.js Portland, Oregon, United States An open-source JavaScript framework built around components, services, declarative templates, and a router that lets developers create scalable single-page applications. FreeOpen source	0.4%
15	Remix Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A full-stack React-based web framework that delivers server-rendered pages with nested routing and progressive enhancement. FreeOpen source	0.3%
16	Dojo San Francisco, California, United States A progressive TypeScript framework that enables developers to build web apps using modular widgets, built-in routing, state management, and internationalization. FreeOpen source	0.3%
17	Blazor Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source web framework from Microsoft that allows developers to build full-stack web applications using C# and .NET. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	Quasar Bucharest, Romania An open-source framework based on Vue.js that lets developers build responsive websites, PWA, SSR, mobile, and desktop applications from a single codebase. FreeOpen source	0.2%
19	Riot Zurich, Switzerland A lightweight, component-based user interface library that uses custom tags to create reactive user interfaces, functioning as a minimalist alternative to larger frameworks like React or Vue.js. FreeOpen source	0.2%
20	Ext JS Austin, Texas, United States A commercial JavaScript framework for building cross-platform web and mobile applications. Free$1,295+	0.1%
21	Marionette A framework that extends Backbone.js with robust views and architecture solutions. FreeOpen source	0.1%
22	Uni-app Beijing, China A Chinese cross-platform framework based on Vue.js that lets developers use one codebase to build apps for iOS, Android, Web (H5), and many mini-program platforms such as WeChat, Alipay, Baidu, QQ, and others. FreeOpen source	0.1%
23	Qwik San Francisco, California, United States A web framework built on JSX, functional components, and reactivity that can deliver instant-loading web applications of any size or complexity. FreeOpen source	0.09%
24	SolidJS A reactive JavaScript framework designed to build responsive and high-performing user interfaces. FreeOpen source	0.09%
25	Ionic Madison, Wisconsin, United States An open-source UI toolkit and framework for building native-quality apps for iOS, Android, and the web using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.07%

👉 See Also

🌎 Frontend Frameworks in other countries

🗃️ 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 159,418 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 49 frontend frameworks across the web.
Of these, 38 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.