The State of JS survey just dropped in February of 2026, and there's some interesting stuff

about libraries and tools and all of the things that we're using every single day in our code.

And today we're going to be breaking down what's interesting about the state of JS 2025.

My name is Scott. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always

as West Boss. What's up, West? Man, I love doing these because it's such a good read on like where

devs are at, you know, what tools are they using, what frameworks are they using, what's popping.

Because it's, it's one thing to like listen to like the hype circles

of web development that uh you and i perpetuate but it's another thing to actually like look at the

raw data of like like what are people actually using and what are people enjoying uh what are people

not like using what what is popped in the last year or so of and there's so much good stuff here. So I'm excited to get in.

Yeah, me too.

Where do you want to kick this off? Do we want to start on the library? There's the whole section on here for JavaScript features.

As you mentioned, when we were

talking about this pre-show, it's gotten kind of

less interesting. Like, oh, okay,

we're still talking about knowledge collis.

Like, okay, we've been talking about

that for years.

It's been in JavaScript forever.

You know, so. JavaScript had like, I don't know, probably six or six or seven, years. It's been in JavaScript forever, you know.

JavaScript had like, I don't know, probably six or seven years of like major API improvements.

And the actual, like, the language itself is starting to get pretty good. And like, we certainly have had lots, lots of new things, you know, lots of new methods added to it.

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