Framework · 2016–now · Platform Wars
Next.js
React with routing, SSR, and deployment opinions. The default answer when someone says "we need a web app."
Next.js stuck by folding SSR, routing, and image optimization into one vendor-friendly stack. Vercel marketing helped; developer ergonomics sealed it. Complexity creep is real but still beats rolling your own webpack nightmare.
Patterns
Context
Frameworks fought for the runtime
Front-end frameworks consolidated power; TypeScript became the floor; serverless and Jamstack rebranded old ideas with better CDNs. Blockchain-for-CRUD and big-bang rewrites collected the decade’s dumbest budgets. The winners were boring platforms with ecosystems. The losers were narratives that skipped product-market fit.
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Related
Framework · 2013–now
React
Components and unidirectional data. Won the front-end by being good enough and having a gravitational ecosystem.
Architecture · 2016–now
Jamstack
Pre-render + CDN + APIs. The brand cooled; the pattern (static where possible) stuck.
Language · 2012–now
TypeScript
JS with a typechecker that conquered the ecosystem. The rare fad that became the floor.