Framework · 2021–now · Platform Wars
Astro
Islands of JavaScript on a page of HTML. The content-site framework that outlived the Jamstack keynote — then the team joined Cloudflare.
Why Astro stuck
Astro stuck because a lot of "apps" were documents wearing a SPA runtime. Islands let a site hydrate what moves and leave the rest as HTML. On 16 January 2026 Cloudflare announced that The Astro Technology Company team was joining, with the framework staying MIT-licensed and aimed at more than one host. That is platform risk on a calendar, not a eulogy and not proof of lock-in. It did not win the web. Next still owns app-shaped React. Astro owns the brochure that should have stayed a brochure.
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Architecture · 2016–2024
Jamstack
Pre-render + CDN + APIs. The brand cooled; the pattern (static where possible) stuck.
Framework · 2016–now
Svelte / SvelteKit
Compile away the framework. Less runtime theater, more shipped HTML — including this site.
Framework · 2016–now
Next.js
React with routing, SSR, and deployment opinions — App Router gravity and vendor lock-in as the default web stack.
Framework · 2021–now
Qwik
Resumability and zero-JS-first marketing. Correct diagnosis of hydration pain; crowded prescription aisle.
Platform · 2020–now
Vite
ESM-native dev server that made webpack feel instantaneously obsolete for new projects.