State of JavaScript 2024

The obvious lack of diversity (and respondents versus last year 😬) applies of course, but there’s some interesting stuff in here still. The “other front-end frameworks” section specifically.

Astro, Ember, Remix and jQuery have all grown in usage vs last year, but Next.js has stagnated somewhat. I guess that’s why the Vercel CEO is currently posting through it (warning, Twitter link).

All I’ll say about that data is to remember how low Next.js’ share is — even in the favourably non-diverse respondent data from this year — whenever someone tells you it is “the most popular framework”. The (extremely) loud minority applies.

I’m really happy to see Astro growing too. It powers this site and allows us to render very little JS, even though our front-end is built with React components. Astro’s SSR system is working wonders for the CSS course too.

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