⚡ JavaScript Libraries in Russia

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.

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our statistics, JavaScript libraries are used on 76.1% of websites from Russia.

Statistics based on 110K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is jQuery, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.5% share.
It is followed by Polyfill with 25% and Fancyapps with 21.5%.

jQuery 85.5%
Polyfill 25%
Fancyapps 21.5%
Swiper 20.3%
Owl Carousel 12.3%
Slick 11.6%
jQuery Cookie 10.8%
jQuery Validation 6.7%
jQuery Easing 6.5%
🍪 JS Cookie 5.8%
Facebook SDK 5.3%
React 5.1%
Magnific Popup 5.1%
Hammer.js 5%
Lightbox 5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Polyfill ^(-3)
3. Fancyapps ^(-9)
5. Owl Carousel ^(-3)
7. jQuery Cookie ^(-23)
8. jQuery Validation ^(-24)
9. jQuery Easing ^(-6)
14. Hammer.js ^(-63)
15. Lightbox ^(-4)
17. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-14)
19. Lazysizes ^(-6)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 293 JavaScript libraries used on sites from Russia, 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	85.5%
2	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	25%
3	Fancyapps Ogre, Latvia A commercial JavaScript UI component library for creating lightboxes, carousels, and interactive image viewers. €29+	21.5%
4	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	20.3%
5	Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	12.3%
6	Slick New York, United States An open-source jQuery carousel library for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and keyboard-accessible content sliders. FreeOpen source	11.6%
7	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.8%
8	jQuery Validation Cologne, Germany The jQuery Validation plugin provides drop-in validation for your existing forms, while making it easy to customize to fit your application. FreeOpen source	6.7%
9	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	6.5%
10	🍪 JS Cookie Germany An open-source, lightweight JavaScript library for managing browser cookies. FreeOpen source	5.8%
11	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Login, and Graph API calls. Free	5.3%
12	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	5.1%
13	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.1%
14	Hammer.js Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source JavaScript library for detecting gestures from touch, mouse, and pointer events. FreeOpen source	5%
15	Lightbox San Francisco, California, United States The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page. FreeOpen source	5%
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	4.5%
17	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.3%
18	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	4.2%
19	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	4.2%
20	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	4.1%
21	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	3.5%
22	Popper Monza, Italy An open-source JavaScript library for positioning and displaying floating UI elements such as tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. FreeOpen source	3.4%
23	Wow.js United Kingdom A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	3.2%
24	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	3%
25	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	2.8%

👉 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 110,450 websites from Russia.
We currently track the presence of 312 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 293 were detected on websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 27, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.