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bestofjs/javascript-risingstars
:stars: An overview of the JavaScript landscape in 2025: trends about frontend, Node.js, fullstack frameworks, build tools, testing, Vue.js, React, state management...
JavaScript Rising Stars is the source for risingstars.js.org, the annual year-in-review report that ranks JS projects by GitHub stars gained over the calendar year. It's been running since 2016, so it's become one of the more reliable longitudinal snapshots of what the JS ecosystem actually moved toward each year. Primarily useful to read, not to run yourself.
Ten years of consecutive yearly data in clean per-year JSON files makes it genuinely useful for spotting long-term trends — you can actually see the rise and fall of bundlers, frameworks, and testing tools across a decade. The Astro + htmx combination is the right call for a mostly-static report site; no irony-free React app showing you React alternatives. The content/comments structure separating editorial markdown from UI strings is clean enough that translators can work independently without touching components. Multilingual from the start, not bolted on later — en, zh, ja, es, fr, ko all have their own editorial content trees.
Stars-gained as the primary ranking signal is a blunt instrument — newly launched tools that spike on launch day rank above mature tools with steady adoption, and anything with a good Product Hunt moment can game it. The editorial commentary quality is uneven across languages; some translations lag a full edition behind and there's no obvious enforcement mechanism. The repo itself has no programmatic interface to the data — if you want to answer 'what won testing in 2021 vs 2023' you're parsing raw JSON files by hand. It's also a one-day-a-year project, so the codebase shows it: contribution window is narrow, issues pile up, and the development experience only matters once a year when the new edition ships.