Popper
Positioning engine for tooltips, popovers and dropdown menus.
UI components and icons npm MIT
Used in agent projects
27
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in ui components and icons
#55 of 75
by use in those projects
Downloads
23.6M
npm, last 7 days, @popperjs/core
GitHub stars
32.8K
last push Sep 28, 2026
How Popper is used
Popper is a dependency in 27 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #55 of 75 in ui components and icons. The most used alternative there is Lucide React. Projects that use it most often also use Bootstrap (51.9%), Vite (63.0%), date-fns (33.3%).
Often used with Popper
| Bootstrap | 51.9% of Popper projects · 80.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vite | 63.0% of Popper projects · 2.8× more than average |
| date-fns | 33.3% of Popper projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 63.0% of Popper projects · 1.8× more than average |
| React Hook Form | 29.6% of Popper projects · 3.7× more than average |
| webpack | 25.9% of Popper projects · 12.9× more than average |
| Emotion | 25.9% of Popper projects · 9.9× more than average |
| Axios | 29.6% of Popper projects · 3.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Popper as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @popperjs/core |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (19), PHP (3), Python (2), Java / Kotlin (1) |
| Example projects | Khan/wonder-blocks, Ortus-Solutions/ContentBox, Ariorh1337/phaser-debug-tool, AmadeusITGroup/otter, mchev/blinest |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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