Select2
Enhanced select box component with search, remote data, and infinite scrolling.
UI components and icons npm MIT
How Select2 is used
Select2 joined the catalog on its public numbers (344,740 downloads a week on npm and 25,909 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is cmdk (388 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Bootstrap (80.0%), css-loader (60.0%), style-loader (60.0%).
Select2 popularity over time
Gid Score 45: downloads 54, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 66, downloads trend 51 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Select2
| Bootstrap | 80.0% of Select2 projects · 191.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| css-loader | 60.0% of Select2 projects · 206.9× more than average |
| style-loader | 60.0% of Select2 projects · 232.8× more than average |
| Axios | 60.0% of Select2 projects · 7.9× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 80.0% of Select2 projects · 2.5× more than average |
| Babel (JavaScript) | 40.0% of Select2 projects · 10.7× more than average |
| Font Awesome | 40.0% of Select2 projects · 59.1× more than average |
| Babel Loader | 40.0% of Select2 projects · 130.7× more than average |
How Select2 is funded
Open Collective: Select2
| Received, last 12 months | $49 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $60 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $269 |
| Raised since the start | $319 · $50 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $4 · $4 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +500% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Dec 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @kevin-brown | 3 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund Select2
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install select2 |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | PHP (4), TypeScript / JavaScript (1) |
| Example projects | rubenarslan/formr.org, cablelabs/os-provisioning |
Alternatives to Select2
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Select2 are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cmdk npm Command menu component library for React applications. |
77 | 388 (8.1%) | 25.4M | 13K | MIT |
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