JavaScript Rising Stars

An overview of the JavaScript landscape in 2025: trends about frontend, backend and fullstack frameworks, React and Vue.js ecosystems, build tools, AI tools, testing, state management...

Contributors

• Alexey Pyltsyn
• Benjamin Blackwood
• Frank Xu
• Evan Trujillo
• Jack Huan
• Javier Valencia
• Jusang Kim
• Hamid Dinar
• L1lith
• Michael Rambeau
• Mihai Badescu
• Misol Goh
• Naoki Haba
• Nobuhiro Uchiyama
• Oh TaeJun
• Rana Kualu
• Sacha Grief
• Sebastien Lorber
• Seognil LC
• Shigeto Yatani
• 王仕军
• Yohei Ice

Special thanks:

• The content of 2021 and 2022 editions of the Rising Stars was double checked by L1lith.
• Benjamin Blackwood was the co-author of the 2020 edition.
• Sacha Grief did a lot of work about the design and the content of the first editions (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

Stack

• Built with Astro
• Hosted on Vercel
• Domain provided by js.org

How to contribute?

Requirements: PNPM, Node.js 22+

• Clone the repo
• Install the dependencies: pnpm install
• Start the development server: pnpm run dev
• Check the following URL: http://localhost:4321/
• Update the comments in your language (see below)

Translations

There are 2 types of file to translate:

• markdown content inside the src/content/comments folder, used for comments related to each category: introduction.md, react.md...
• key/values messages stored as JSON in the src/content/messages folder, used for simple strings used in the UI: en.json, ja.json...

File system overview:

./src/content
├── categories
├── comments
│   └── 2024
│       ├── en
│       │   ├── categories
│       │   └── guests
│       ├── es
│       │   ├── categories
│       │   └── guests
│       └── zh
│           ├── categories
│           └── guests
├── contributors
└── messages
    ├── 2024
    └── common