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Dev tools · January 18, 2017

2016 JavaScript Rising Stars

The most starred JavaScript projects of 2016

2016 JavaScript Rising Stars launched on January 18, 2017 with 135 votes, #280 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

A complete overview of the JavaScript landscape in 2016: trends about front-end and node.js frameworks, tooling, IDE, Static site generators...

The JavaScript community is going full speed on innovation, what was once trendy becomes old-fashioned a few months later. 2016 is over, you may think you missed something important? Don't worry, we are going to review what were the main trends. Let's see by the numbers which projects got traction in 2016, by comparing the numbers of stars added on Github, over the last 12 months. In 2015, React was the king and Redux won by storm the battle of Flux implementations. Who are the 2016 JavaScript rising stars ? The following graphs compare the number of stars added on Github over the last 12 months. We analyzed projects coming from bestof.js.org , a curated list of the best projects related to…from risingstars2016.js.org

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