Hono tops developer satisfaction, but Express still leads

#​610 — February 5, 2026 Read on the Web The State of JavaScript 2025: Backend Frameworks — The results of the popular annual JavaScript survey are out, and we’re focusing on the most relevant bit to Node.js: backend frameworks . Express still leads the way, but NestJS continues to grow rapidly. Meanwhile, Hono comes top in developer satisfaction. Devographics Node.js 25.6.0 (Current) Released — async_hooks can now opt out of Promise tracking to cut instrumentation overhead in production. The built-in test runner supports per-run env injection (see the env option here ), TextEncoder gets some SIMD-backed speedups , and the URL parser updates to Unicode 17. Antoine du Hamel Stop AI Agents from Generating Outdated Clerk Code — Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code are trained on old Clerk patterns. Clerk Skills is a one-command way to give your agent up-to-date knowledge to build auth flows, sync users to databases, set up organizations, and more. One command, and it knows how to build auth t