npm package comparisons

Weekly downloads, 90-day growth and versions for the head-to-heads developers search for most. Data as of 17 October 2026.

UI frameworks

• react vs vue 188.0M vs 17.6M/wk
• react vs svelte 188.0M vs 6.8M/wk
• vue vs svelte 17.6M vs 6.8M/wk
• react vs @angular/core 188.0M vs 6.2M/wk
• preact vs react 38.9M vs 188.0M/wk
• solid-js vs react 7.4M vs 188.0M/wk

Meta-frameworks

• next vs nuxt 67.5M vs 2.3M/wk
• next vs astro 67.5M vs 7.3M/wk
• astro vs @sveltejs/kit 7.3M vs 3.3M/wk

Build tools

• vite vs webpack 195.3M vs 56.2M/wk
• esbuild vs @swc/core 303.5M vs 44.8M/wk
• rollup vs vite 126.1M vs 195.3M/wk
• parcel vs vite 340.4K vs 195.3M/wk

Testing

• vitest vs jest 125.3M vs 46.8M/wk
• jest vs mocha 46.8M vs 13.0M/wk
• @playwright/test vs cypress 76.2M vs 5.9M/wk

HTTP clients

• axios vs node-fetch 119.1M vs 208.7M/wk
• axios vs ky 119.1M vs 7.2M/wk
• got vs axios 42.2M vs 119.1M/wk

Validation

• zod vs yup 346.9M vs 12.7M/wk
• zod vs joi 346.9M vs 25.9M/wk
• zod vs valibot 346.9M vs 22.5M/wk

State management

• @reduxjs/toolkit vs zustand 33.5M vs 62.7M/wk
• zustand vs jotai 62.7M vs 6.7M/wk
• mobx vs zustand 3.9M vs 62.7M/wk

Dates

• moment vs dayjs 40.8M vs 76.2M/wk
• date-fns vs dayjs 97.1M vs 76.2M/wk
• luxon vs date-fns 42.3M vs 97.1M/wk

Utilities

• lodash vs ramda 162.3M vs 13.5M/wk
• lodash vs es-toolkit 162.3M vs 56.3M/wk

Databases & ORMs

• prisma vs drizzle-orm 19.0M vs 28.2M/wk
• typeorm vs prisma 5.2M vs 19.0M/wk
• sequelize vs prisma 2.7M vs 19.0M/wk

Server frameworks

• express vs fastify 145.2M vs 15.4M/wk
• express vs koa 145.2M vs 7.8M/wk
• hono vs express 74.0M vs 145.2M/wk

Styling

• tailwindcss vs bootstrap 137.3M vs 5.9M/wk
• styled-components vs @emotion/react 11.0M vs 20.6M/wk

Linting & formatting

• eslint vs @biomejs/biome 158.7M vs 17.9M/wk
• prettier vs @biomejs/biome 139.1M vs 17.9M/wk

Package managers

• pnpm vs yarn 223.2M vs 9.4M/wk