r/javascript is a subreddit with 2.5M members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses javascript, nodejs, askjs, lookingfor, and struggling, and they frequently recommend/review framework, backend framework, and headless cms.
Chat about javascript and javascript related projects. Yes, typescript counts. Please keep self promotion to a minimum/reasonable level.
Popular Themes in r/javascript
#1
Solution Requests
: "i built a browser civilization sandbox: rust/wasm sim core with a react ui, MIT"
6 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "I spent three years building Nanoviews, a tiny UI library on signals. It just hit 1.0"
5 posts
#3
Ideas
: "I made a map where you drag a year slider and see who ruled each state (1000 BC to today, every claim sourced)"
3 posts
#4
News
: "We just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainers"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/javascript
#1
Javascript
: "Knitting — a shared-memory concurrency runtime for Javascript"
84 posts
#2
Nodejs
48 posts
#3
Askjs
30 posts
#4
Lookingfor
29 posts
#5
Struggling
22 posts
#6
Tired
21 posts
#7
Typescript
: "Introducing tsrs: a Port of Typescript to Rust"
10 posts
#8
Frustration
8 posts
#9
Tool
: "I made a practice Tool for JavaScript that requires you to type all answers"
8 posts
#10
React
7 posts
Products Discussed in r/javascript
Framework
27 reviews
#1
Svelte
4.7★ from 6 reviews
#2
React
4.0★ from 6 reviews
#3
Vue
4.0★ from 3 reviews
Backend Framework
26 reviews
#1
NestJS
4.8★ from 6 reviews
#2
Koa
4.0★ from 4 reviews
#3
ExpressJS
3.3★ from 3 reviews
Headless Cms
15 reviews
#1
Strapi
4.2★ from 6 reviews
#2
Directus
4.6★ from 5 reviews
#3
Payload CMS
4.3★ from 3 reviews
Flair Used in r/javascript
#1
Subreddit Stats
: "Your /r/javascript recap for the week of October 12 - October 18, 2026"
2 posts
#2
Showoff Saturday
: "Showoff Saturday (October 24, 2026)"
1 post
#3
AskJS
: "[AskJS] :Recently got a PR merged into TanStack Query"
1 post
#4
Removed: Where's the javascript?
: "HTML is Alive - an exhortation to remove its ventilator"
1 post
#5
Removed: Showing off a Project
: "I created a new (digital) musical instrument which I call the Harmonophone, entirely in vanilla JavaScript. [Prudence Audio]"
1 post
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+46k members(1.9%)
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Last updated: October 27, 2026