⚡ Frontend Frameworks in Japan

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.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, frontend frameworks are used on 4.4% of websites from Japan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is React with an impressive share of 49.8%, followed by Vue.js with 37.2% and Nuxt with 18.6%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Frontend Frameworks

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 frontend frameworks used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
React
Menlo Park, California, United States

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

FreeOpen source
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
3
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
4
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
5
Backbone.js

A JavaScript framework that adds structure to web applications by implementing the MVC pattern.

FreeOpen source
6
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
7
AngularJS
Mountain View, California, United States

A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular.

FreeOpen sourceLegacy
8
Angular
Mountain View, California, United States

An open-source single-page web application framework, a successor to AngularJS, developed by Google.

FreeOpen source
9
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.

FreeOpen source
10
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
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
12
Knockout

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

FreeOpen source
13
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
14
Inertia.js
New York, United States

A toolkit for building single-page applications with React, Vue, or Svelte while keeping classic server-side routing and controllers.

FreeOpen source
15
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
16
Remix
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

A full-stack React-based web framework that delivers server-rendered pages with nested routing and progressive enhancement.

FreeOpen source
17
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
18
Cordova
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A mobile development framework that enables cross-platform application development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

FreeOpen source
19
Jakarta Faces
Brussels, Belgium

A Java MVC framework for building web application user interfaces using reusable UI components.

FreeOpen source
20
Flutter
Mountain View, California, United States

A framework for building cross-platform applications using the Dart programming language.

FreeOpen source
21
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
22
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
23
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
24
Marionette

A framework that extends Backbone.js with robust views and architecture solutions.

FreeOpen source
25
Ext JS
Austin, Texas, United States

A commercial JavaScript framework for building cross-platform web and mobile applications.

Free$1,295+

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 157,205 websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.