⚡ 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 71.2% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 75K+ 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 88.5% share.
It is followed by Swiper with 40.7% and Wow.js with 17.1%.

jQuery 88.5%
Swiper 40.7%
Wow.js 17.1%
Owl Carousel 7.3%
Slick 4.7%
React 4.5%
Waypoints 4.2%
Animate On Scroll 3.9%
Polyfill 3.4%
jQuery LazyLoad 3.4%
jQuery Cookie 3.2%
FlexSlider 3.2%
Fancyapps 3.1%
ImagesLoaded 2.9%
Modernizr 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 ^(-22)
4. Owl Carousel ^(-4)
5. Slick ^(-1)
6. React ^(-1)
7. Waypoints ^(-10)
8. Animate On Scroll ^(-21)
10. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-68)
11. jQuery Cookie ^(-19)
12. FlexSlider ^(-6)
16. Video.js ^(-21)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 285 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	88.5%
2	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	40.7%
3	Wow.js United Kingdom A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	17.1%
4	Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.3%
5	Slick New York, United States An open-source jQuery carousel library for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and keyboard-accessible content sliders. FreeOpen source	4.7%
6	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces through reusable and stateful UI components, originally created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	4.5%
7	Waypoints West Linn, Oregon, United States An open-source JavaScript library that executes functions when users scroll to specific elements on a web page. FreeOpen source	4.2%
8	Animate On Scroll Poznań, Poland A lightweight JavaScript library that uses CSS3 transitions to animate webpage elements as they enter the viewport during scrolling. FreeOpen source	3.9%
9	Polyfill London, United Kingdom An open-source JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them. FreeOpen source	3.4%
10	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.4%
11	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.2%
12	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	3.2%
13	Fancyapps Ogre, Latvia A commercial JavaScript UI component library for creating lightboxes, carousels, and interactive image viewers. €29+	3.1%
14	ImagesLoaded Alexandria, Virginia, United States An open-source JavaScript library that detects when images and CSS background images have finished loading, allowing code to run only after loading is complete. FreeOpen source	2.9%
15	Modernizr San Francisco, California, United States An open-source feature detection library that identifies browser support for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features and allows websites to adapt accordingly. FreeOpen source	2.6%
16	Video.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States An open-source HTML5 video player library that provides a customizable video player for embedding and controlling video playback in web applications. FreeOpen source	2.5%
17	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Login, and Graph API calls. Free	2.4%
18	Popper Monza, Italy An open-source JavaScript library for positioning and displaying floating UI elements such as tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. FreeOpen source	2.3%
19	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	2.1%
20	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
21	🍪 JS Cookie Germany An open-source, lightweight JavaScript library for managing browser cookies. FreeOpen source	1.9%
22	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	1.9%
23	bxSlider Chicago, Illinois, United States An open-source responsive jQuery content slider for displaying images, videos, and HTML content as slideshows or carousels. FreeOpen source	1.8%
24	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
25	Lottie San Francisco, California, United States An animation framework created by Airbnb that lets developers export Adobe After Effects animations as JSON and render them natively on mobile, desktop, and the web. FreeOpen source	1.7%

👉 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 75,262 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 312 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 285 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on September 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.