TypeScript Community Chooses Best Libraries of 2024

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TypeScript Community Chooses Best Libraries of the Year: Full Overview of Winners

The annual State of TypeScript vote has concluded, and the developer community has determined the best libraries and tools in the ecosystem for 2024. Over 20,000 developers from 140 countries participated in the survey, evaluating projects based on criteria of usefulness, documentation quality, and maintenance activity.

We have compiled the key winners in the main categories that every TypeScript developer should know about.

🏆 Winners in Main Nominations

1. Best Framework: Next.js 14

Next.js once again confirmed its leadership, receiving 78% of the votes. Developers highlighted built-in support for React Server Components, improved routing, and deep integration with TypeScript. The automatic typing system for API routes received special praise.

2. Best Type Utility: Zod

Zod outperformed competitors (Yup, io-ts) thanks to its simple syntax and first-class TypeScript support. The library allows declaratively describing data schemas, automatically inferring strict types. It is ideal for form validation and API responses.

3. Best HTTP Client: tRPC

tRPC revolutionized API building: there is now no need to write separate endpoints and types — everything is inferred automatically from server functions. The community called it "the most TypeScript-friendly solution for full-stack development."

📊 Developer Tools Category

Biome — a fast linter and formatter written in Rust. It replaced ESLint and Prettier in 40% of the projects participating in the vote.
tsx (TypeScript Execute) — a utility for running TypeScript files directly, without prior compilation. It speeds up the development of scripts and CLI tools.
Effect — a library for functional programming with a powerful type system. Popular among developers working with complex asynchronous streams.

🔥 Rising Stars of 2024

Drizzle ORM — a TypeScript-first ORM for SQL databases. It offers typed queries without magic and transparent migrations. It gained 15,000 stars on GitHub over the year.
Hono — an ultra-lightweight web framework for Edge environments (Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun). It runs 10 times faster than Express with full typing.
TanStack Start — a new meta-framework built on TanStack Router. It offers a unique "island" architecture model for TypeScript applications.

💡 What Does This Mean for Developers?

The voting results show a clear trend: the TypeScript community increasingly values "out-of-the-box" typing and tools that eliminate code duplication. The winning libraries (Zod, tRPC, Drizzle) operate on the principle of "single source of truth" — types are defined once and automatically propagated between the client and server.

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