⚡ JavaScript Libraries in Rwanda

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.

Rwanda is an East African country with a population of over 14 million people.

According to our statistics, JavaScript libraries are used on 92.5% of websites from Rwanda.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is jQuery, which dominates the market with a substantial 89.9% share.
It is followed by Owl Carousel with 42.3% and Wow.js with 36.3%.

jQuery 89.9%
Owl Carousel 42.3%
Wow.js 36.3%
jQuery Easing 31.5%
Popper 29.8%
SmoothScroll 27%
SweetAlert 26.6%
Swiper 19.4%
X for Websites 13.7%
ImagesLoaded 13.7%
Waypoints 13.7%
Polyfill 10.5%
Facebook SDK 10.5%
Magnific Popup 10.1%
Isotope 9.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Owl Carousel ^(-5)
3. Wow.js ^(-23)
4. jQuery Easing ^(-14)
5. Popper ^(-20)
6. SmoothScroll ^(-34)
7. SweetAlert ^(-96)
9. X for Websites ^(-27)
15. Isotope ^(-6)
22. Select2 ^(-9)
25. jQuery Validation ^(-9)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 113 JavaScript libraries used on sites from Rwanda, 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	89.9%
2	Owl Carousel Germany A touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider. FreeOpen source	42.3%
3	Wow.js A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	36.3%
4	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	31.5%
5	Popper Monza, Italy A JavaScript library used for positioning and displaying tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. FreeOpen source	29.8%
6	SmoothScroll Smooth scrolling experience for websites. FreeOpen source	27%
7	SweetAlert Makes popup messages easy and pretty. FreeOpen source	26.6%
8	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	19.4%
9	X for Websites Bastrop, Texas, United States A suite of tools bringing X content and functionality to your webpages and apps, enabling the X audience to share your content, and follow your X accounts.	13.7%
10	ImagesLoaded Alexandria, Virginia, United States A JavaScript library that detects when images have been loaded. FreeOpen source	13.7%
11	Waypoints West Linn, Oregon, United States A library that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element. FreeOpen source	13.7%
12	Polyfill An open-source JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them. FreeOpen source	10.5%
13	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Facebook Login, and Graph API calls. Free	10.5%
14	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.1%
15	Isotope Alexandria, Virginia, United States A commercial JavaScript library for creating filterable and sortable grid layouts. FreeOpen source$25+	9.7%
16	Slick An open-source, fully responsive and accessible carousel library. FreeOpen source	8.9%
17	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	8.5%
18	🍪 JS Cookie Germany A simple, lightweight JavaScript library for handling browser cookies. FreeOpen source	7.3%
19	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	6.9%
20	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	6.9%
21	MediaElement.js Dallas, Texas, United States A free audio and video player with support for media files (MP4, WebM, MP3), streaming content (HLS, Dash), and embeddable players (YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, SoundCloud, etc). FreeOpen source	6%
22	Select2 A jQuery based replacement for select boxes. FreeOpen source	5.2%
23	Modernizr A JavaScript library that detects the availability of HTML, CSS and JavaScript features in the user's browser. FreeOpen source	4.8%
24	Fancyapps A commercial library of JavaScript UI components that includes lightbox, carousel, and pan/zoom components. €29+	4.8%
25	jQuery Validation Provides drop-in validation for your existing forms, while making it easy to customize to fit your application. FreeOpen source	4.8%

👉 See Also

✨ Related Technologies
- JavaScript

Data is based on the analysis of 268 websites from Rwanda.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.