SortableJS
Reorderable drag-and-drop lists for browsers and touch devices.
UI components and icons npm MIT
How SortableJS is used
SortableJS joined the catalog on its public numbers (2,263,313 downloads a week on npm and 31,198 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 11 public GitHub projects of our scan, 8 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Vite (81.8%), Axios (54.5%), Prettier (63.6%).
SortableJS popularity over time
Gid Score 55: downloads 71, use in agent projects 19, GitHub stars 69, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with SortableJS
| Vite | 81.8% of SortableJS projects · 4.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Axios | 54.5% of SortableJS projects · 7.2× more than average |
| Prettier | 63.6% of SortableJS projects · 3.0× more than average |
| Iconify | 45.5% of SortableJS projects · 100.8× more than average |
| vue-tsc | 45.5% of SortableJS projects · 29.4× more than average |
| DOMPurify | 36.4% of SortableJS projects · 24.8× more than average |
| Apache ECharts | 36.4% of SortableJS projects · 86.8× more than average |
| VueUse | 36.4% of SortableJS projects · 34.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list SortableJS as a dependency.
How SortableJS is funded
Open Collective: SortableJS
| Received, last 12 months | $99 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $120 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $319 |
| Raised since the start | $525 · $205 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $9 · $4 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +104% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| Posit | $410 since Dec 2019 |
|---|---|
| MetaBrainz Foundation Inc | $77 since Mar 2024 |
| Web Traffic Booster | $8 since Mar 2022 |
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.
Open Collective lists SortableJS/Sortable as this collective's repository.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Install
| Package | npm install sortablejs |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (5), PHP (4), Next.js (1), Python (1) |
| Example projects | ChenyCHENYU/Robot_Admin, BeWaterXYZ/bewater-frontend |
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