The Best JavaScript Frameworks

Based on github stars

Top 16 Most Popular JavaScript Frameworks
by number of GitHub stars

Filtering projects by: Front-end X

Rank Change 2025 Sep Project Features Stars Activity Rating
2 - 2 Vue.js Front-end 210,027 6.0 22.29%
3 - 3 Angular Front-end 100,995 10.0 10.72%
4 - 4 Svelte Front-end 88,092 9.8 9.35%
5 - 5 jQuery Front-end 59,780 8.1 6.34%
6 - 6 Meteor JS Front-end 44,806 9.9 4.75%
7 - 7 Preact Front-end 38,861 9.2 4.12%
8 - 8 Koa Front-end 35,685 7.4 3.79%
9 - 9 Backbone.js Front-end 28,100 3.5 2.98%
10 - 10 Ember.js Front-end 22,570 9.8 2.39%
11 - 11 Polymer Front-end 22,018 0.0 2.34%
12 - 12 Mithril.js Front-end 14,499 5.1 1.54%
13 - 13 Blitz Front-end 14,128 5.1 1.50%
14 - 14 Aurelia 1 Front-end 11,678 0.0 1.24%
15 - 15 Aurelia 2 Front-end 1,540 8.9 0.16%
  • Rating - the percentage of stars of a particular project from the total number.
  • Activity - a relative number between 0 and 10 representing the commits activity of a project.
    9+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 10% of most actively developed projects.
    5+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 50% of most active projects.

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