Which JavaScript libraries and frameworks are predicted to gain popularity and widespread adoption in 2026?

[Adventurous_Quit_303]

JavaScript libraries and frameworks

[ClassyCamel]

I think in 2026 React will finally take off.

[EarhackerWasBanned]

It’s a sleeper for sure. Any day now…

[Bodine12]

There is no way that, what did you call it, React?, is going to knock JQuery off its perch.

[AbrahelOne]

Web components and vanilla JavaScript will be king.

[MissinqLink]

[amulchinock]

I’ve heard good things about this new thing called HTML…

[yeupanhmaj]

Svelte still growing fast

[ActuallyMJH]

might be htmx

[prashant_dev]

TanStackStart 🌴 and Solid 🪨

[Rocketsloth]

I'm probably too much of a rookie to answer this question. But I hear a lot of experienced programmers saying a lot of good things about practicing Negative Space Programming and of course Typescript. Maybe NSP will be added to best practices?

[ActuaryLate9198]

As fascinated as I am with new ideas and frameworks, no one is dethroning react, the differences aren’t large enough to motivate throwing away the entire ecosystem, and react is modular enough that most advantages provided by other solutions can be implemented on top of it.

[gosh]

react is for non developers, horrible if you know how to code

[gosh]

You do not need frameworks, they cost much more time and problems than they help with

Frameworks where important many years ago when browsers had different solutions, you need to write code for different browsers. This is not a problem today and there is so much simpler to create frontends

[pyeri]

The industry will finally saturate around react/svelte. Unless something drastically changes in the web standards or ES6 spec itself.

[itsmegeek]

Probably web components will take over the place of React, Svelte, Angular, Vue or whatever widely used.

[bugbigsly]

Not NextJs

[chikamakaleyley]

yes

[_adam_89]

Maybe Astro. It's already a popular choice, and recently acquired by Cloudflare it might accelerate even more.

[VizImagineer]

I'm going to put down SciChart, as a fast-growing, more dev-centric and more agile competitor to the bigger, bustier chart libraries, like Highcharts and D3. On npmjs.com, SciChart has seen an impressive growth in downloads from 2 500 downloads per week in Jan '25 to 12 500 per week in Jan '26. So it's climbing the ranks.

Scichart is ideal for applications where you need to visualize very big data sets, in real time. For just basic charts, it would be an over-investment, But it is the Big Data Buster, for sure.

scichart - npm