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Will Full-Stack JavaScript Reach its Summit in 2022
Tracking the trending projects in the JavaScript ecosystem for the past six years and compiling them into the annual JavaScript Rising Stars
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Apac CIOOutlook | Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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JavaScript has come a long way since its meager beginnings. It now has a position at all levels of the stack. And for edge computing JavaScript has become the dominant language today
FREMONT CA: Tracking the trending projects in the JavaScript ecosystem for the past six years and compiling them into the annual JavaScript Rising Stars, which rates projects based on stars awarded on GitHub during the previous twelve months. There the rise of meta frameworks like Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, and Remix, as well as the move to Rust and Go to
Speed up JavaScript tooling, the increased popularity of backend JavaScript runtimes like Deno, and JavaScript-based server less functions at the edge with Deno Deploy, Vercel Edge Functions, CloudflareWorkers, and Netlify Edge.
TypeScript is a language that adds statically verified types to JavaScript. TypeScript is one of the numerous landmarks that has helped JavaScript grow from its 'toy language' origins to its world takeover, from frontend to full-stack, according to Rauch, and it was one of the essential inventions that were required for JavaScript to scale. While Typescript may have given JavaScript additional respectability and the ability to scale, Rambeau and Rauch both credit the rise of meta frameworks for JavaScript's rising presence across thestack.
Carson Gross, the author of htmx, a framework that allows you to access modern browser features straight from HTML, rather than utilizing Javascript, said that there is a reason why other languages and approaches to using JavaScript exist. According to Daniel Thompson-Yvetot, co-founder of the Tauri framework, which is one of Rising Stars' top ten projects, utilizing a single language throughout the stack can improve team efficiency, cross-system testing, and code reuse, but it can also cause issues.
Talking about JavaScript's "Golden Age" of full-stack functionality. There are still challenges, such as setting up everything the right manner, in a standardized way, which involves things like a dev environment with the rapid feedback, testing, linting, formatting, type checking, and building for production.
