Framework · 2020–2025 · Platform Wars
Remix
Web standards–first React framework with nested routes and forms. Merged into React Router; the ideas survived the brand.
Remix mutated because Shopify bought the team and folded loaders and actions into React Router v7. It failed as a standalone ecosystem against Next.js gravity. The web-form-first philosophy stuck; the separate npm package did not.
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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Framework · 2013–now
React
Components and unidirectional data. Won the front-end by being good enough and having a gravitational ecosystem.
Framework · 2016–now
Next.js
React with routing, SSR, and deployment opinions. The default answer when someone says "we need a web app."
Framework · 2015–now
React Native
React components on native views. Share logic with web until platform differences ruin your sprint.