What is the state of frontend frameworks and libraries in 2026? This is a question many frontend developers today are wrestling with, and it appears one answer is that frontend has moved deeper into the stack. Take gpuix-svelte, an experimental project built by Stanislav Khromov, a Svelte core team member, that renders the JavaScript framework
Stop Ignoring the Browser: The Biggest Frontend Shift in a Decade
Native browser APIs now provide powerful alternatives for routing, state management, and components. Never mind the frameworks, use the browser.
2021 JavaScript Rising Stars
A complete overview of the JavaScript landscape in 2021: trends about front-end and Node.js frameworks, React and Vue.js ecosystems, build tools, state management...
Compilers are the New Frameworks
My current "investment thesis" is that what we call web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers. When it comes to eking performance out of hand-authored JavaScript and accompanying runtime libraries, we've reached the point of diminishing returns.
Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript | Peter Kröner | webinale Berlin 2026
JavaScript Frameworks - Heading into 2026
I suppose after three years, we can consider my review of JavaScript Frameworks an annual event now....
Frameworks without the framework: why didn’t we think of this sooner?
You can’t write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you.
The Sad State of the Backbone Ecosystem
For the past 2 years, ~90% of my coding time has been spent working on a large scale Backbone.js app. In February 2014, the Backbone community was in a fairly good place. The core library had reached 1.0 the previous year and had a strong team around it. Marionette had emerged as a de-facto standard for web applications 1. There were Backbone specific plugins for many tasks, and generally gaps could be filled using the jQuery plugin ecosystem, or a framework agnostic library.
The Browser is the Computer! by Daniel Lopez & Angel De Miguel @ Wasm I/O 2025
State of the Art JavaScript in 2016
State of the Art JavaScript in 2016 So, you’re starting a brand new JavaScript front end project or overhauling an old one, and maybe you haven’t kept up with the breakneck pace of the ecosystem …
How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
A friend called me last week. Someone who’d built web applications back for a long time before moving exclusively to backend and infra work. He’d just opened a modern React codebase for the first time in over a decade.
Component Party
Compare JavaScript frameworks side-by-side: React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Solid.js, and more. See syntax differences, features, and code examples for web development frameworks.
State of JS 2020
The annual survey about the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem.
Writing a Web-based Editor from Scratch
At some point a while back I decided that I was going to write the front end of Weaver in Rust. I'd looked through the various 'fullstack' web application frameworks kicking around, and while they still had a ways to go, they seemed complete enough. Plus I wanted to write a semi-custom Markdown parser and renderer, to support features I wanted to exist in Weaver, like atproto record embeds, dual-column mode, and resizable images, and since I also wanted it to be fast, that meant that at least a portion of the front-end codebase would be in Rust, and Javascript-Rust FFI wasn't something I had dealt with a lot yet.
Why You Should Pay Attention to WebAssembly
There may come a day when the humble web browser – having already yielded enterprise grade server side technologies like Firecracker, Isolates and Node.js – has nothing of interest left for the industry to extract. But that day has certainly not arrived yet, as the increasing chatter around WebAssembly (WASM) proves. The fact that people
Everything you need to know about: Svelte
Everything you need to know about the world’s most loved JS framework
