The State of Framework Tools — June 2026
We ran Sigmon's live detection across the 14 most-tracked framework tools and pulled their public footprint — GitHub stars and npm weekly downloads, and how many of our 27 signal sources each one exposes. Here's where framework stands as of June 2026.
Methodology: every figure is a live public signal — GitHub stars and npm weekly downloads — detected at publish time (2026-06-15). No private data, no scraping behind logins. "Signal sources" counts how many of Sigmon's public trackable sources apply to each tool. Tools with no detectable public footprint are omitted rather than guessed.
The leaderboard
Ranked by GitHub stars:
| Tool | GitHub stars | npm / week | Signal sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 140.0k | 37.9M | 27/27 |
| Angular | 100.3k | 6.1M | 27/27 |
| Svelte | 87.3k | 4.8M | 27/27 |
| NestJS | 75.9k | 11.4M | 27/27 |
| Nuxt | 60.4k | 1.7M | 27/27 |
| Astro | 60.2k | 3.2M | 27/27 |
| Vue | 53.8k | 13.7M | 20/27 |
| TanStack Query | 49.8k | 58.5M | 20/27 |
| Fastify | 36.5k | 8.4M | 27/27 |
| SolidJS | 35.6k | 2.6M | 27/27 |
| Remix | 33.1k | 791.2k | 27/27 |
| Hono | 31.0k | 44.8M | 27/27 |
| Qwik | 22.0k | 29.7k | 27/27 |
| SvelteKit | 20.6k | 2.1M | 20/27 |
Who leads where
- Most starred: Next.js — 140.0k GitHub stars
- Most npm adoption: TanStack Query — 58.5M downloads/week
- Widest signal surface: Next.js — 27 of 27 trackable sources
The take
Stars and adoption diverge sharply here. Hono (31k stars) and TanStack Query (49.8k) each pull more weekly npm installs than Next.js — 44.8M and 58.5M against its 37.9M — despite a fraction of the GitHub visibility; both are drop-in libraries you add to a project without ever starring. The headline frameworks rank far lower on downloads-per-star: Next.js 271x, Vue 255x, Svelte 55x, Remix 24x. Installs concentrate hard at the top — the three biggest (TanStack Query, Hono, Next.js) are ~72% of all weekly downloads — while Qwik barely registers at ~30k/week.
Compare them head-to-head
Stars are a lagging indicator. These live, signal-by-signal matchups update as the tools move:
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Track the ones you care about
This is a snapshot. The tools that win the next quarter are the ones shipping, hiring and repricing right now — moves that don't show up in a star count. Sigmon tracks any of these across 27 public sources and sends a weekly brief of what actually changed. Free, no card.