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State of JavaScript 2023

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
22,610
96%

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
22,044
94%

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
20,343
86%

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
21,789
93%
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”

Dax Raad

Building SST and terminal

Browser APIs

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

13,112
2

PWA

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
21,482
91%

Language Pain Points

What are your main pain points regarding the JavaScript language?
Freeform
0%
18%
36%
54%
72%
90%
1

Static typing

2

ESM & CJS

3

Browser support

4

TypeScript support

5

Dates

6

Performance

7

Error handling

8

Async programming

9

Choice overload

10

Security

0%
18%
36%
54%
72%
90%
% of question respondents
6,180
26%

Browser APIs Pain Points

What are your main pain points regarding browser APIs?
Freeform
0%
16%
32%
48%
64%
80%
1

Browser support

2

Safari

3

Lack of documentation

4

Dates

5

Excessive complexity

6

Performance

7

Choice overload

8

DOM API

9

Chrome

10

Firefox issues

0%
16%
32%
48%
64%
80%
% of question respondents
3,243
14%
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

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