Ah, it's that time of the year again – always enjoy seeing where the JS ecosystem is moving.

I would like to see two categories added for next year's survey:

1. Auth – would be interested to see if Passport is still the tool of choice

2. ORM – curious how Sequelize, Knex/Bookshelf, Objection, etc. compare in usage.

I understand this survey will obviously skew towards frontend tools, but some of the categorization just feels off to me:

For example, I wouldn't consider Next.js a backend framework. Sure, it's a server-side-rendering framework, but you wouldn't typically be using it for traditional backend things like accessing a database. Perhaps consider adding a SSR sub-section on frontend frameworks.

The data layer section seems a bit confused – it's mix between client-side stores and server-side persistence which have very different use cases. I'd probably move out the databases into their own category - would be interesting to see which JS devs prefer (eg. Postgres, MySQL, Mongo).

And trying to draw conclusions from the testing category seems odd when both frontend- and backend-specific tools are bunched together.