Web & AI Analyst
There is no sign of the React juggernaut slowing down as we near the end of 2023, but there has been a bit of a shakeup in the web frameworks that use React. Other web development trends this year include the rise of Cloud Development Environments (CDEs), generative AI and LLM features being integrated into … Read more
Few companies have had a bigger impact on the frontend developer ecosystem in the 2020s than Vercel, steward of the popular React framework, Next.js. When I first wrote about Vercel, in July 2020, the company had just embraced the Jamstack trend and was liberally using the term “serverless” in its marketing. But with Jamstack on … Read more
Every December I write a blog post looking back at the leading technology trends of the year. I first started doing this in 2004, when Read/Write Web was my personal blog. That was also the year “Web 2.0” was named, denoting the trend of using the Web as a platform. There’s a connection, at least … Read more