Jamstack gives developers full-stack powers

The third year of the Jamstack Community Survey found a mix of things we expected – indeed, things we predicted last year – as well as some big surprises about the many diverse members of our community. Some key takeaways include:

• Four out of five developers are now working remotely most of the time, and more than half say they would quit their jobs rather than go back to an office.
• The number of people who have used serverless technology jumped to 70%, taking it fully into the mainstream.
• React continued to grow to an almost unprecedented 71% share of developers, and Next.js rode that wave and is now used by 1 in every 2 developers.

Netlify sits at the center of the Jamstack community, and we conduct our annual survey so we can understand our community of developers. This helps us tailor our products and services to our community. In sharing our survey results, we also want to help developers better understand themselves and one another. Working as a developer often means working in a vacuum, without a sense of what’s happening in the broader community. Our survey data can help provide a sense of best practices as well as an idea of what else is happening in the community.

In addition to our usual framework census and our questions about content management systems, this year we asked about some emerging technologies that have received a lot of attention. The fuzzy group of technologies called “Web3” garnered mixed feelings despite a great deal of press in 2021 and 2022. Browser-native web components, on the other hand, seem to have finally reached mainstream adoption.

As usual, our survey covers everyone we can reach: every kind of developer responded to our survey from every region of the world, whether or not they were Netlify users, and whether or not they considered themselves Jamstack developers. Our survey this year received a little under 7,000 responses. If you’re interested in the specifics of our methodology, we have a detailed writeup of the demographics and margins of error in our survey.

As usual, we want to thank the developers who took the time to contribute to the survey. We have done our best to take the data you’ve given us and turn it into useful, actionable insights for everyone in our community, and we hope it helps you.

This year, our results are split into four sections: