2025 JavaScript Rising Stars (risingstars.js.org)

Anthropic has acquired Bun, the versatile JavaScript runtime that surged to prominence in 2022, marking a strategic shift to power AI agents rather than solely focusing on cloud products like Deno Deploy. This acquisition highlights the rapid advancement of AI coding tools, which are leveraging Bun’s capabilities to create single-file executables for command-line interfaces and agents, making it a significant player in the evolving AI landscape. Additionally, prominent figures from the JavaScript ecosystem, such as Lee Robinson, who joined Cursor, and Anthony Fu, Daniel Roe, and Sébastien Chopin, who joined Vercel, signal a diversification of frameworks surrounding the dominance of Next.js and React. In technical developments, the release of Remix 3 promises to reshape the landscape by prioritizing web platform simplicity over dependency on React, while React continues to find stability amidst evolving directives like `use client` and `use server`. The recent "Shai-Hulud" supply chain attack within the npm ecosystem underscores the urgent need for improved security measures. As developers head into 2026, mastering AI-driven workflows while maintaining code quality will be crucial to balancing innovation with control in an increasingly complex tech environment.