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Zod saw a lot of growth year-over-year. And since many of the libraries featured here focus on date management, it'll be interesting to see how this chart evovles as Temporal becomes better-supported across browsers.
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We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2025 Pick: Observable

Observable lets you build interactive documents treating each block as a function that yields something. It's all async, super capable, fun as hell to make stuff in, and powers Nerdy Notebook.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

Adam Argyle

Co-host, The CSS Podcast

Graphics & Animations

Chart.js was a write-in result last year, and being included as an official option this survey rocketed it all the way up to first place.
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Every self-respecting JavaScript developer these days seems to be using ESLint and Prettier.
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JavaScript Runtimes

Node.js and browsers taking the top spots isn't a big shock, but Bun's third place is a nice sign of the project's growth.
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Hosting Services

Despite the company's sometimes-polarizing reputation, Vercel has done a pretty amazing job of establishing itself as a serious hosting option, second only to AWS.
Which of these services have you used to host JavaScript apps?
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JavaScript Edge/Serverless Runtimes

While Cloudflare was fifth in the hosting chart, it ranks just below AWS Lambda here, making it a serious contender in both spaces.
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Text Editors

VS Code has long dominated the text editor ranks, but Cursor has somehow managed to outpace every other competitor thanks to its promise of AI-powered coding.
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Mobile & Desktop

React Native takes the lead here, but Expo and Tauri are also worth keeping an eye on!
Which of these mobile or desktop app frameworks do you regularly use?
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Monorepo Tools

pnpm is the clear leader in the monorepo category.
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Non-JavaScript Languages

When we're not writing JavaScript, most of us turn to Python and PHP.
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Non-JavaScript Features
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Which features from other programming languages do you wish JavaScript/TypeScript would adopt?
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