The landscape of frontend technologies in 2024 was dynamic and innovative, embracing micro frontends, headless CMSs, and companies going serverless. These developments will continue to shape the frontend technology landscape in 2025. But, there’s room for a lot more innovation.
In this article, we will take a look at 7 trends in frontend technologies, that we believe will become prominent in 2025. Read on to find out what frameworks, tools, and solutions your business should be paying more attention to in the coming months.
Editor's note: this is an update of last year's article titled "7 trending frontend technologies for 2024"
Effect-TS is a library for TypeScript. Its main characteristic is composability, meaning that developers can interconnect different parts of the library to their liking. Components can be selected and assembled in various combinations, much like building blocks. Effect-TS also comes with built-in metrics and support for tracing.
The creators of Effect-TS promise that their library delivers immutable data structures, synchronous queues, configuration, and dependency management.
According to NPM trends, in the second half of 2024, there was a nearly threefold increase in downloads of the Effect-TS library. We believe that this figure will continue to grow, making it one of the trending frontend technologies in 2025.
Frontend engineers know Svelte as a framework for building user interfaces. A stable version 5.0 released in October 2024 addresses multiple bugs from version 4.0 and introduces new features and performance improvements.
- Fine-grained reactivity
- Runes, a new state management system
- Simplified component composition and event handling
- Improved slot syntax
- Native TypeScript support
While Svelte has a long way to go to overtake its competition we believe that its stable growth will be one of the most talked about trends in frontend technology in 2025.
There are two prominent tools that we can see trending in 2025: Deno 2.0, Vite and ShadCN’s new CLI.
Deno 2.0
Deno is a modern toolchain for JavaScript and TypeScript development. The newest release, version 2.0, released in October 2024 comes with multiple new features and improvements.
- Backward compatibility with Node.js and npm
- Native support for package.json and node_modules
- Support for JSR: a modern registry for sharing JavaScript libraries across runtimes.
- Package management with new deno install, deno add, and deno remove commands.
The list of new features includes support for private npm registries, workspaces, and monorepos. This makes Deno a potential black horse in the competition for domination among frontend tooling in 2025.
Vite
Vite is a versatile JavaScript build tool. Its slogan, "Make web development simple again," has a familiar ring to it, yet perfectly describes its focus on improving the developer experience for frontend web developers.
Vite offers fast Hot Module Replacement (HMR), instant server start, support for many popular languages and frameworks, and a pre-configured Rollup build. As strong promoters of improving the developer experience, we predict that Vite will be a welcome addition to many tech stacks in 2025.
ShadCN’s new CLI
ShadCN has released a new Command Line Interface (CLI) for modern React frameworks. It comes with four new features that optimize the process of creating UI components.
- Broader framework support: The new CLI offers out-of-the-box support for all the main React frameworks, such as Next.js, Remix, Vite, and Laravel.
- Improved initialization: The CLI can now detect frameworks using the bun x shadcn init command. Also, it can initialize a pristine Next.js application with a singular instruction.
- Component-specific dependencies: Each component now comes bundled with its necessary dependencies.
- Remote component installation: Developers can now seamlessly incorporate remote components using URLs.
The new CLI makes the configuration of the project even easier and with just a single-line command it allows developers to add new components that work out of the box.
In 2023, micro frontends evolved with more streamlined and standardized approaches, support for ECMAScript Modules (ESM), and enhanced capabilities of modern bundling tools. Gradually, they become default practices in next-gen frameworks and tools.
Last year, we predicted that micro frontends would build upon existing trends, focusing on increasing scalability and flexibility. While for many clients micro frontends are not the first technology of their choice, they are recommended in more complex scenarios.
Our prediction for 2025 is that micro frontends will continue to be trending frontend technology. This will happen through 7 key areas:
- Framework Agnosticism: One of the biggest trends is the move towards framework-agnostic micro frontends. This approach allows different teams to choose their preferred frameworks for their specific microapp, leading to a more flexible and scalable architecture.
- Improved tooling and platforms: As micro frontends become more popular, we expect an evolution of their tooling and supporting platforms. This includes enhanced build tools, testing frameworks, and deployment platforms that work well with the complexities of micro frontend architectures.
- Edge Computing Integration: With the rise of edge computing, micro frontends are being deployed in environments closer to the users. This reduces latency and improves user experience, especially for applications that require real-time data processing.
- Design System Integration: As organizations adopt micro frontends, there's a growing trend toward integrating design systems. This ensures consistency in UI/UX across different microapps, despite them being developed independently.
- Server-Side Rendering (SSR): It’s becoming more common to implement SSR in micro frontends to improve a website’s visibility in search engines and initial load performance. This trend addresses one of the main challenges of micro frontends—maintaining performance and SEO efficiency.
- Micro Frontend Orchestration: Tools and patterns for better orchestration of micro frontends will continue to evolve. This includes improved routing, state management, and communication patterns between microapps.
- Focus on Performance Optimisation: As micro frontends can potentially increase resource usage, there's a growing emphasis on performance optimization strategies. It is to prevent the split of the monolithic app from having a negative impact on the end-user experience.
Micro frontends will move towards optimizing performance, orchestrating operations more efficiently, improving initial load speed, reducing latency, and enhancing overall user experience. As a frontend technology in general they will become even more flexible and scalable.
During the past year, Next.js introduced many solutions that have impacted how this framework was used in 2024. While it hasn’t become a trendsetter, it’s still one of the top players. This is why our prediction for 2025 is that Next.js will maintain its strong position among trending frontend technologies, thanks to the innovations they have introduced so far.
- React Server Components (RSC): Next.js is pushing the boundaries with React Server Components. This frontend technology allows server-side rendering of React components, which, among other things, reduces JavaScript’s load on the client’s side. This leads to better performance and quicker load times.
- But that's not all. We are already seeing the emergence of new types of packages that are designed to be executed only on the backend side. These packages often include pre-configured components that can easily be customized by adding just one line to the .env file.
- This is in contrast to the traditional Single Page Application (SPA) approach. Developers had to handle data fetching, mutation, and usage of library components, along with solving other problems. So far, Next.js is the only one implementing the RSC concept. Other frameworks, like Remix, were investigating it, but without producing anything stable.
- Many of these features came as a fruit of the tight partnership between Next.js and the React team. Before that, Next.js was struggling to deliver any of these frontend technologies by themselves.
- Streaming: Next.js is enhancing its streaming capabilities by allowing web content to be sent in segments from server to client. This incremental delivery improves user experience, especially for content-heavy pages.
- Partial Prerendering: The Next.js framework is exploring partial prerendering. It’s an approach that combines static generation with server-side rendering. It can lead to faster page loads while maintaining dynamic functionality.
Next.js's exploration of React Server Components and their close cooperation with the React team, streaming, and partial prerendering positions it as a notable framework in the evolving landscape of frontend technologies. These innovations are drawing significant interest from the developer community, marking Next.js as one of the key frontend technologies to monitor.
Unlike traditional frontend technologies, headless CMSs offer scalability and independence from the presentation layer. In 2024, the adoption of headless CMS like Strapi was set to escalate, revolutionizing how developers manage and deliver content. We have seen this happen over the last year, and we predict that in 2025 headless CMS will continue to find its way among leading frontend technologies.
Through the API and independent of browsers or presentation layers, these systems can provide the client with the data only. This detachment means the client side can evolve, be thoroughly tested, and undergo processes like A/B testing without being tied down to the CMS.
Where traditional systems might expose vulnerabilities across the board, headless CMS contains them locally. Also, they can integrate into larger ecosystems. They allow for enriching data and typically are more suited for smaller, but scalable, applications.
Advantages of Strapi over other frontend technologies
Strapi saves developers from having to build entire monolithic structures upfront. It offers greater API replication and localized security. Updating Strapi can be done without any changes to the presentation layer, making it more efficient.
For instance, creating a rapid site with Next.js can be achieved in a few days: from data modeling and input to building a Next.js application. This speed and efficiency are the reasons why headless CMSs like Strapi are becoming trending frontend technologies in 2025.
With serverless computing, your application runs on servers that are managed by one of the leading cloud providers. The main benefit of this frontend technology is that it allows developers to focus on business logic rather than infrastructure management.
The serverless approach uses a "pay for value" model, reducing costs by caching micro-frontend responses and minimizing the need to scale every part of the system equally. The architecture involves using AWS services such as Amazon CloudFront, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and Amazon S3, emphasizing the serverless aspect of the micro-frontend implementation.
Using AWS and its Serverless Platform, you can build and deploy digital products on cost-effective services. They provide you with built-in application availability and flexible scaling capabilities. This lets developers focus on the code instead of worrying about provisioning, configuring, and managing servers.
Going serverless has become one of the trending frontend technology in 2024 and will continue to do so in 2025. We can already see that in Vercel going serverless which could significantly reduce their costs.
In 2025 we will see advancements in styling practices within React. They will pave the way for 2 new trends in React-related frontend technologies, namely the dominance of Tailwind CSS and the return to CSS modules. Here’s why:
- Tailwind CSS's dominance: Tailwind CSS, known for its utility-first approach, remains a strong choice in the React ecosystem. Its popularity is driven by its responsive design capabilities, ease of customization, and a class-based system that speeds up the development process.
- Return to CSS Modules: CSS Modules are slowly coming back to grace. This approach offers scoped styles to components, enhancing maintainability and reducing style conflicts. CSS Modules represent a more traditional, yet robust, method of managing CSS in React. They provide a balance between global styles and component-level styling. And those who have been in the frontend game long enough will know it as a “good ol’ CSS”.
Coming back to the previously mentioned trends: when working with the React Server Components, CSS modules will work right out of the box. Other libraries are either working with the RSCs support or only with the client’s components.
Based on our work with various clients and conversations with fellow engineers, we recognize a few smaller trends gaining traction in the world of frontend technologies.
For example, some of our engineers believe that in 2025 the market will finally embrace low-code/no-code solutions. Others think that in 2025 trending frontend developers will focus more time and effort on approaches like Agile Development, Atomic Design, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Others think that optimizing CI/CD. Some will pay attention to Lavarel Cloud, web components, and Ladybird.
Lavarel Cloud
Lavarel Cloud is set for a big success in 2025, as recently Accel invested $57M in their products. Laravel may not originate from the JavaScript ecosystem, but it is undoubtedly one of the most significant players, and developers are not ready to concede in the competitive landscape of web development.
Web components
There is ongoing discussion about web components and some say the idea is dead. For example, Svelte 5 gave up on shaping their APIs to be web-components compatible.
Ladybird
Ladybird is a completely new web browser. While the concept of creating a new browser has been executed multiple times, one thing that sets Ladybird apart is its unique engine, which does not rely on Chromium.
No one can predict the future. All that we, and anyone, can do is take the available information and then use logic and our experience to make an educated guess. That being said, we have been in the software development game for so long, that we can usually tell which way the wind is blowing.
The important thing to remember is that trends are just trends. The frontend technologies that we listed are popular, and usually for a good reason, but it doesn't make them the right solution for every business need. The best that you can do is to keep updating your knowledge with every new advancement.
Curated by Krzysztof Radzik
