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Features

This year we put special emphasis on identifying developer pain points with JavaScript. As one might expect, the lack of native typing and browser inconsistencies led their respective charts, each affecting nearly a third of developers.

Syntax Features

Which of these syntax features have you used?
0%
16%
32%
48%
64%
80%
1

18,155
2

13,947
3

7,820
4

7,087
5

4,882
6

3,713
7

None

1,948
0%
16%
32%
48%
64%
80%
% of question respondents

String Features

Which of these String features have you used?
0%
15%
29%
44%
59%
73%
1

16,157
2

9,741
3

5,385
4

None

4,318
0%
15%
29%
44%
59%
73%
% of question respondents

Array Features

Which of these Array features have you used?
0%
10%
20%
29%
39%
49%
1

6,122
2

6,078
3

5,274
4

3,186
5

2,204
6

None

9,989
0%
10%
20%
29%
39%
49%
% of question respondents

Async Features

Which of these async features have you used?
0%
15%
29%
44%
59%
74%
1

16,053
2

9,334
3

9,293
4

None

2,781
0%
15%
29%
44%
59%
74%
% of question respondents
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Replicache

No technology has had a bigger impact on the quality of what I've shipped in years. I think they are carrying the torch on pushing what can be done on the web.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

Browser APIs

Which of these browser APIs have you used?
0%
12%
24%
37%
49%
61%
1

13,112
2

Progressive Web App

10,255
3

7,104
4

3,932
5

3,888
6

3,880
7

3,400
8

3,359
9

1,969
10

1,869
11

1,350
12

357
13

None

3,251
0%
12%
24%
37%
49%
61%
% of question respondents

Language Pain Points

What are your main pain points regarding the JavaScript language?
Freeform
0%
17%
34%
50%
67%
84%
1

Static typing

2

ESM & CJS

3

Dates

4

TypeScript support

5

Browser support

6

Performance

7

Error handling

8

Async programming

9

Choice overload

10

Security

0%
17%
34%
50%
67%
84%
% of question respondents

Browser APIs Pain Points

What are your main pain points regarding browser APIs?
Freeform
0%
15%
30%
46%
61%
76%
1

Browser support

3

Lack of documentation

4

Dates

5

Performance

6

Excessive complexity

7

DOM API

9

Firefox issues

10

Lack of adoption

0%
15%
30%
46%
61%
76%
% of question respondents
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Alba Silvente Fuentes

Alba writes about frontend development, web architecture, and web performance, spoke at many conferences, and has a podcast, "No me da la vida". She has been inspiring many devs, and I'm one of them!
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

Arisa Fukuzaki

Senior DevRel Engineer & Docs at Storyblok

Reading List

0%
88%
177%
265%
354%
442%
1

2,989
2

2,583
3

2,373
4

2,339
5

1,669
6

1,578
7

1,492
8

1,439
9

1,378
10

1,369
11

1,299
12

1,198
13

1,151
14

1,123
15

1,109
16

1,090
17

1,025
18

929
19

900
20

881
21

876
22

860
23

843
24

828
25

827
26

804
27

750
28

Progressive Web App

723
29

718
30

707
31

657
32

650
33

636
34

614
35

576
36

514
37

510
38

510
39

478
40

472
41

463
42

453
43

443
44

438
45

422
46

420
47

399
48

399
49

396
50

389
51

Over Limit

30,069
0%
88%
177%
265%
354%
442%
% of question respondents
How many time each item was added to respondent's Reading List, a feature that lets people learn more about specific topics as they take the survey.

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