⚡ JavaScript Libraries in Sri Lanka

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.

Sri Lanka is a South Asian country with a population of around 22 million people.

According to our statistics, JavaScript libraries are used on 85% of websites from Sri Lanka.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is jQuery, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 90% share.
It is followed by Swiper with 28.2% and Owl Carousel with 23.2%.

jQuery 90%
Swiper 28.2%
Owl Carousel 23.2%
Facebook SDK 20.3%
ImagesLoaded 18.7%
Waypoints 16.4%
Slick 15.8%
Polyfill 15.5%
🍪 JS Cookie 14.8%
jQuery BlockUI 13.9%
Magnific Popup 13.4%
Underscore.js 12.8%
Isotope 11.4%
Popper 11%
Lottie 10.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Owl Carousel ^(-4)
6. Waypoints ^(-5)
10. jQuery BlockUI ^(-5)
11. Magnific Popup ^(-3)
12. Underscore.js ^(-5)
13. Isotope ^(-8)
14. Popper ^(-10)
17. Wow.js ^(-8)
21. Animate On Scroll ^(-11)
24. Select2 ^(-6)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 215 JavaScript libraries used on sites from Sri Lanka, 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%
2	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	28.2%
3	Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	23.2%
4	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Login, and Graph API calls. Free	20.3%
5	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	18.7%
6	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	16.4%
7	Slick An open-source jQuery carousel library for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and keyboard-accessible content sliders. FreeOpen source	15.8%
8	Polyfill An open-source JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them. FreeOpen source	15.5%
9	🍪 JS Cookie Germany An open-source, lightweight JavaScript library for managing browser cookies. FreeOpen source	14.8%
10	jQuery BlockUI The jQuery BlockUI plugin allows you to block user interaction on the page or part of the page. FreeOpen source	13.9%
11	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.4%
12	Underscore.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States A utility library for JavaScript that provides support for functional programming helpers (each, map, reduce, filter) without extending any built-in JavaScript objects. FreeOpen source	12.8%
13	Isotope Alexandria, Virginia, United States A commercial JavaScript library for creating filterable and sortable grid layouts. FreeOpen source$25+	11.4%
14	Popper Monza, Italy A JavaScript library used for positioning and displaying tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. FreeOpen source	11%
15	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	10.8%
16	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	10.3%
17	Wow.js A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	8.7%
18	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	8.6%
19	Fancyapps Ogre, Latvia A commercial JavaScript UI component library for creating lightboxes, carousels, and interactive image viewers. €29+	8.6%
20	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	7.6%
21	Animate On Scroll A CSS-driven, lightweight library to animate elements on your page as you scroll. FreeOpen source	6.9%
22	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	6.9%
23	MediaElement.js Dallas, Texas, United States A free, open-source HTML5 audio and video player that enables playback of MP4, WebM, and MP3 media files as well as streamed content in HLS and MPEG-DASH formats. FreeOpen source	6.6%
24	Select2 Boston, Massachusetts, United States A jQuery-based replacement for HTML select elements that enhances dropdown inputs with advanced search and selection capabilities. FreeOpen source	6.3%
25	jQuery Validation The jQuery Validation plugin provides drop-in validation for your existing forms, while making it easy to customize to fit your application. FreeOpen source	5.9%

🗃️ 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 2,347 websites from Sri Lanka.
We currently track the presence of 312 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 215 were detected on websites from Sri Lanka.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.