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Rank 01—No changeEditor’s pick
#1 in JavaScript Frameworks
of 16 ranked entries
React
Meta · component library · 2013
Still the default hiring filter for frontend roles regardless of whether it is technically the best tool for a given job, and that gravitational pull on the job market is its own kind of moat. Recorded specifics: released 2013, github stars 230 K, bundle size 42 KB. Panel highlighted largest hiring pool and component ecosystem by a wide margin and concurrent rendering features keep it competitive on performance. The reservation on record is requires a meta-framework on top for most production decisions.
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Score breakdown
How React earned 96.5
Each criterion is scored independently, then combined using the weights published on JavaScript Frameworks.
- Developer experienceweight 30%
- 97.4
- Performance & bundle sizeweight 25%
- 98.8
- Ecosystem & hiring demandweight 25%
- 93.9
- Long-term stabilityweight 20%
- 95.3
“The framework every new entrant on this list is still implicitly compared against, whatever its own merits.”
— Top 49, on JavaScript Frameworks
On the record
Recorded detail
| Released | 2013 |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 230 K |
| Bundle size | 42 KB |
| Rating | 9.4 |
Panel verdict
Strengths and reservations
What it gets right
- Largest hiring pool and component ecosystem by a wide margin
- Concurrent rendering features keep it competitive on performance
Where it gives ground
- Requires a meta-framework on top for most production decisions
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Rank 02Editor’s pickNext.js
Vercel · React meta-framework · 2016
Vercel turned React’s biggest weakness — no built-in routing, rendering or data strategy — into a cohesive framework, and the App Router’s server components are the most consequential change to React itself in years.
93.7/100 Top 49 score3Up 3
Rank 03Editor’s pickSvelte / SvelteKit
Rich Harris · compiler-based framework · 2016
Compiles away the framework itself at build time instead of shipping a runtime to the browser, which is why its bundle sizes embarrass most of the field without the code looking unusual to write.
92.7/100 Top 49 score4Up 4
Rank 04Vue.js
Evan You · progressive framework · 2014
The gentlest learning curve of any framework capable of genuinely large-scale production use, and the single-file component format still reads clearly to developers coming from plain HTML.
91.6/100 Top 49 score1Down 1
Rank 05Astro
Astro Technology Company · content-first framework · 2021
Ships zero JavaScript by default and only hydrates the specific components that need interactivity, which is the correct default for the enormous share of the web that is mostly static content.
89.0/100 Top 49 score2Up 2
Rank 06SolidJS
Ryan Carniato · fine-grained reactive framework · 2018
Fine-grained reactivity without a virtual DOM gives it benchmark performance close to vanilla JavaScript, in a component syntax deliberately designed to feel familiar to React developers.
86.8/100 Top 49 score3Up 3
Rank 07Nuxt
NuxtLabs · Vue meta-framework · 2016
Vue’s answer to Next.js, and the auto-imports and file-based routing remove enough boilerplate that a lot of teams describe it as simply the correct way to use Vue in production now.
86.0/100 Top 49 score1Down 1
Rank 08Angular
Google · full platform framework · 2016
A full, opinionated platform — dependency injection, RxJS, a CLI that scaffolds everything — that large enterprise teams still choose specifically because it makes fewer architectural decisions optional.
84.8/100 Top 49 score—No change
Rank 09Remix
Shopify · React meta-framework · 2021
Leans hard into web platform fundamentals — forms, HTTP caching — rather than reinventing them, a philosophy that won it real fans even after its team’s attention shifted toward React Router.
83.8/100 Top 49 score1Down 1
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