JavaScript Community Developer Survey Results

What type of JavaScript do you write?

Most developers write client-side JavaScript, accounting for 98%

57% of developers said they do not currently write Node programs, but are interested in learning about it

9% of developers said they are not interested in Node

71% of developers have never used a language that can be compiled into JavaScript (such as CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Dart, etc.)

Which JavaScript writing style do you prefer?

Although this issue caused some controversy, it still got the result.

85% of developers choose to use semicolons

67% use commas at the end

53% use spaces for indentation

39% use tabs for indentation

Testing, benchmarking

51% of developers don’t write Testing

Jasmine is the most popular testing library (45%), followed by Mocha (41%), and QUnit (31%)

JSLint is the most popular static analysis tool (56%) , JSHint follows closely behind (55%)

uglify is the most popular compression tool

WebKit Inspector is the most popular debugging tool (79%)

80% of developers use client tools for benchmarking

Loading

RequireJS is the most popular module loading system, others include YUI, LABjs and ExtJS

Google Ajax Libraries is the most popular CDN, followed by CloudFlare (11%)

Code hosting

GitHub is the most , 91%

Bitbucket free private hosting, 20%

Google Code only 3%