Picking a technology can often come down to a series of tough choices between competing priorities, and this year we tried to capture this process using a new bracket-style question format.
Link to sectionLibraries
Customize Data
Which libraries do you regularly use?
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”
My 2021 Pick: Ryan Carniato
Ryan's reactive JS framework SolidJS hit 1.0, and he wrote numerous articles analyzing advanced JS framework implementation concepts.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”
Mark Erikson
Redux Maintainer
Link to sectionUtilities
Customize Data
Which utilities or tools do you regularly use?
💡
Sharing this survey on Twitter, Facebook, or by email is scientifically proven to improve your coding performance by up to 15%.
Link to sectionJavaScript Runtimes
Customize Data
Which engines/runtimes/execution environments do you regularly use?
Link to sectionJavaScript Flavors
Customize Data
Languages that compile to JavaScript
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”
My 2021 Pick: Fly.io
Fly enabled me (a frontend engineer with a distain for DevOps) to confidently deploy a real-world, globally-distributed, production-grade app.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”
Kent C. Dodds
Director of Developer Experience, Remix
Link to sectionNon-JavaScript Languages
Customize Data
Which other programming languages do you use?
💡
The following chart provides the results of a tournament-style 8-player bracket in which respondents were tasked with picking the winner of each match-up until a single winner remained.
Link to sectionLibrary Evaluation Rankings
Which factors do you prioritize when evaluating a new library? Results are ranked by number of tournament rounds won.
| Round 1 wins | |
| Round 2 wins | |
| Round 3 wins |
Link to sectionRecommended Resources
Mike North
LinkedIn
Add Types to Your Web and Node.js Apps with TypeScript
Write robust JavaScript with a superior developer experience for your teams with Typescript.
Scott Moss
Netflix
Build Web APIs and Applications with Node.js
Node.js has emerged as one of the main server-side language choices that powers the web!
Thanks to our partners for supporting us! Learn more.