Like most developers, I always get excited about new, up and coming open source technologies. In the spirit of Thoughtworks Radar, albeit much more casually, I'd like to list some technologies that I'm think are quite interesting and worth monitoring.
Reputable technologies - Significant use in production and established communities
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- React
- Vagrant
- Node.js + Express
- Typescript
Rising star - Worth experimenting / prototyping with these technologies
- Meteor
- Relay + GraphQL
- Falcor.js
- Flow Type (by Facebook)
- Deis - Heroku-like open-source PaaS
- Angular 2
- React Native
- AWS Lambda
- Babel.js - transcompiles future JS into ES5
- ES7 - async, await
- Redux - new, but popular flux-like architecture and tiny footprint
Moonshots - These are new, unproven technologies but have a potentially large benefit.
- Black screen - terminal emulator built in Electron
- Otto - created by the makers of Vagrant, provides a simpler workflow through more "magic"
- Koa.js
- Elm - functional programming made easier (Haskell that transcompiles into Javascript)