⚡ 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 92.4% of websites from Rwanda.

Statistics based on 278 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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% and Wow.js with 35.8%.

jQuery 89.9%
Owl Carousel 42%
Wow.js 35.8%
jQuery Easing 31.1%
Popper 30%
SmoothScroll 26.8%
SweetAlert 26.5%
Swiper 19.8%
X for Websites 14.8%
ImagesLoaded 14%
Waypoints 13.6%
Facebook SDK 10.5%
Magnific Popup 10.1%
Polyfill 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 ^(-98)
9. X for Websites ^(-27)
13. Magnific Popup ^(-1)
15. Isotope ^(-6)
22. jQuery Validation ^(-12)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 115 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	Wow.js A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	35.8%
4	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	31.1%
5	Popper Monza, Italy A JavaScript library used for positioning and displaying tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. FreeOpen source	30%
6	SmoothScroll Smooth scrolling experience for websites. FreeOpen source	26.8%
7	SweetAlert Makes popup messages easy and pretty. FreeOpen source	26.5%
8	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	19.8%
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.	14.8%
10	ImagesLoaded Alexandria, Virginia, United States A JavaScript library that detects when images have been loaded. FreeOpen source	14%
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	13.6%
12	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Login, and Graph API calls. Free	10.5%
13	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.1%
14	Polyfill An open-source JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them. FreeOpen source	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	9.3%
17	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	8.6%
18	🍪 JS Cookie Germany A simple, lightweight JavaScript library for handling browser cookies. FreeOpen source	7.8%
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	7%
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	7%
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	5.8%
22	jQuery Validation Provides drop-in validation for your existing forms, while making it easy to customize to fit your application. FreeOpen source	5.4%
23	Web Font Loader San Jose, California, United States A JavaScript library that gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face. FreeOpen source	5.1%
24	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	5.1%
25	jQuery BlockUI Allows you to block user interaction on the page or part of the page. FreeOpen source	5.1%

🗃️ 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 278 websites from Rwanda.
We currently track the presence of 310 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 115 were detected on websites from Rwanda.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.