2 years ago

For six years now, developer and https://bestofjs.org/ creator https://www.michaelrambeau.com/ has been tracking trending projects in the JavaScript ecosystem and assembling them into his yearly https://risingstars.js.org/2021/en, which ranks projects according to stars given on https://github.com/ during the previous twelve months. Rambeau summarizes the results and then offers his thoughts on the year past and the year ahead.

“Basically, now we are building full applications with one language: JavaScript or TypeScript.” In an interview with The New Stack, Rambeau expanded upon his thoughts, explaining that JavaScript has come a long way since its meager beginnings.

“I would say the rise of TypeScript is bringing a lot of credibility to the language ecosystem.