The frontend ecosystem shifts every year, but 2025-2026 felt structurally different. It wasn’t just new libraries — the underlying mental models changed. How we hydrate, bundle, structure components, and handle reactivity has moved in ways that actually affect how apps perform and how long they take to build. Here’s what’s worth paying attention to.
The Framework Landscape Is Fragmenting (In a Good Way) React still dominates with roughly 45% adoption [1], but calling it the default answer is getting harder to justify for every project type. Three challengers are serious now.