







We are developers. We need to stay up to date with technology. Every day, we learn programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. The more modern tools we know — the better. Keeping up to date with Angular, React, Vue, Riot, Ember, Knockout is fun. But we are wasting our time.
Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?
I'm not trying to be facetious. I want to really want consider whether or not, in 2026, in the age of vibe coding, agentic programming, loop or graph or whatever diagrammatic metaphor-based engineering is most popular, does it matters what web framework you use? More importantly (to me and my particular interests), and at the risk of Betteridge-ing myself: should we make new frameworks?

Making the Jump: How Desktop-Era Frameworks Can Thrive on Mobile
How do tools that grew up on the desktop, like Ember, Angular and React, make the jump to the mobile future?
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.

progression.fyi
A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work

Which framework to learn?
As the title says, I have been exploring theory about AI agents and LLMs for a while and I want to learn frameworks and actually build some solid…
Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework
Production grade React applications that scale. The world's leading companies use Next.js by Vercel to build static and dynamic websites and web applications.

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.

Everything you need to know about: Svelte
Everything you need to know about the world’s most loved JS framework

I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance | Loren Stewart
I needed to choose a framework for a mobile-first app at work. I started comparing Next.js, SolidStart, and SvelteKit, then expanded to 10 frameworks. The measurements revealed dramatic differences in bundle sizes, performance, and the real cost of framework choices.
Thinking Frameworks | 2021
Sharing out the best meta-thinking tools I’ve learned this year

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 | HackerNoon
<em>No </em><a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/javascript" target="_blank"><em>JavaScript</em></a><em> frameworks were created during the writing of this article.</em>

The Cost of Frameworks
I recently delivered a talk at FFConf in Brighton, called "You should use <insert library / framework here>, it's the bestestest!". I wanted to do a write-up of the presentation's content here, hopefully so it can start a broader conversation that I think we need to have, mainly around the cost of modern frameworks on mobile devices.

Fresh - The simple, approachable, productive web framework.
Fresh features just-in-time edge rendering, island based interactivity, and zero-configuration TypeScript support. Fast to write; fast to run.

JavaScript Frameworks - Heading into 2026
I suppose after three years, we can consider my review of JavaScript Frameworks an annual event now....

Josh W. Comeau
Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more!

Do we still need build tools?
Do we still need Rspack, SWC, PostCSS, Vite, Parcel, Webpack, Turbopack, esbuild, Rollup, Rolldown, Babel, Autoprefixer, esbuild and Lightning CSS in 2026?
