⚡ JavaScript Frontend Frameworks

JavaScript frontend frameworks are a set of tools and libraries built with the JavaScript language for creating interactive and dynamic user interfaces in web browsers.

They typically use component-based architectures, reactive data binding, and client-side rendering to manage UI state, and handle user interactions.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading JavaScript frontend frameworks in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is React, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 57.2% share.
It is followed by Vue.js with 18.1% and Next.js with 14.3%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of frameworks that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best JavaScript Frontend Frameworks

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 JavaScript frontend frameworks we track, ranked by their market share.

Available filters: Cross-Platform JavaScript Java Python Rust
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
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
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
5
Backbone.js

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

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

A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular.

FreeOpen sourceLegacy
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
Remix
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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

FreeOpen source
13
Ext JS
Austin, Texas, United States

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

Free$1,295+
14
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
15
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
16
Cordova
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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

FreeOpen source
17
Marionette

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

FreeOpen source
18
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
19
Meteor
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

An open-source full-stack JavaScript framework based on Node.js that enables building real-time applications across web, mobile, and desktop platforms.

FreeOpen source
20
Marko
San Jose, California, United States

A declarative, HTML-based language for building dynamic and reactive user interfaces that supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.

FreeOpen source
21
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
22
Mithril.js

A modern client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications.

FreeOpen source
23
Framework7
Weston, Florida, United States

An open-source HTML framework for building iOS, Android, web, desktop, and progressive web apps with native look and feel.

FreeOpen source
24
Single-spa
South Jordan, Utah, United States

A JavaScript framework for front-end microservices.

FreeOpen source
25
XPages
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

An IBM implementation of JavaServer Faces with a server side JavaScript runtime and the built-in NoSQL database IBM Domino.

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 3,320,618 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.