There was a further shift away from complexity in web development this year, with frontend frameworks like Astro and Svelte gaining popularity as more developers looked for solutions beyond the React ecosystem. Meanwhile, native web platform features proved they’re up to the job of building sophisticated web applications — with CSS in particular improving over 2025.
That all said, perhaps the biggest web development trend of this year was the rise of AI-assisted coding — which, it turned out, is prone to defaulting to React and the…
