⚡ JavaScript Libraries in China

JavaScript libraries are collections of prewritten code that provide reusable functions and components for building interactive features and handling common client-side tasks in web applications.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, JavaScript libraries are used on 67.8% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top JavaScript libraries in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is jQuery, which dominates the market with a substantial 90.5% share.
It is followed by Swiper with 40.2% and Wow.js with 18.2%.

jQuery 90.5%
Swiper 40.2%
Wow.js 18.2%
Owl Carousel 7.9%
Slick 4.8%
Waypoints 4.5%
Animate On Scroll 3.9%
jQuery LazyLoad 3.6%
FlexSlider 3.5%
Polyfill 3.2%
jQuery Cookie 3.1%
Fancyapps 3.1%
SystemJS 2.9%
React 2.9%
ImagesLoaded 2.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Wow.js ^(-23)
4. Owl Carousel ^(-3)
5. Slick ^(-1)
6. Waypoints ^(-5)
7. Animate On Scroll ^(-26)
8. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-66)
9. FlexSlider ^(-10)
11. jQuery Cookie ^(-19)
12. Fancyapps ^(-1)
13. SystemJS ^(-9)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 277 JavaScript libraries used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	jQuery San Francisco, California, United States A fast, small, feature-rich JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax. FreeOpen source	90.5%
2	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	40.2%
3	Wow.js A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	18.2%
4	Owl Carousel Germany A touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider. FreeOpen source	7.9%
5	Slick An open-source, fully responsive and accessible carousel library. FreeOpen source	4.8%
6	Waypoints West Linn, Oregon, United States A library that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element. FreeOpen source	4.5%
7	Animate On Scroll A CSS-driven, lightweight library to animate elements on your page as you scroll. FreeOpen source	3.9%
8	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.6%
9	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	3.5%
10	Polyfill An open-source JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them. FreeOpen source	3.2%
11	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.1%
12	Fancyapps A commercial library of JavaScript UI components that includes lightbox, carousel, and pan/zoom components. €29+	3.1%
13	SystemJS Vancouver, Canada A hookable, standards-based, dynamic ES module module loader. FreeOpen source	2.9%
14	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	2.9%
15	ImagesLoaded Alexandria, Virginia, United States A JavaScript library that detects when images have been loaded. FreeOpen source	2.6%
16	Modernizr A JavaScript library that detects the availability of HTML, CSS and JavaScript features in the user's browser. FreeOpen source	2.5%
17	Video.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States An open-source web video player that supports HTML5 video and modern streaming formats, as well as YouTube and Vimeo. FreeOpen source	2.5%
18	Popper Monza, Italy A JavaScript library used for positioning and displaying tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. FreeOpen source	2%
19	bxSlider An open-source, fully loaded, responsive jQuery content slider. FreeOpen source	1.9%
20	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	1.9%
21	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
22	🍪 JS Cookie Germany A simple, lightweight JavaScript library for handling browser cookies. FreeOpen source	1.6%
23	Isotope Alexandria, Virginia, United States A commercial JavaScript library for creating filterable and sortable grid layouts. FreeOpen source$25+	1.6%
24	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
25	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	1.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 JavaScript Libraries 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 83,337 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 310 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 277 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on April 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.