What Frontend Trends Matter in 2024‑25? AI, Vision Platform, Electron, ESM & React Animation

The "Zhuanzhuan Frontend Weekly" newsletter compiles recent high‑quality articles that broaden developers' perspectives on emerging frontend technologies.

1. 2024 Frontend Technology Review and 2025 Outlook

2024 saw a flourishing AI landscape with multimodal large models and diverse application scenarios; human‑AI collaboration has become a dominant trend in software development. Looking ahead to 2025, improvements in model understanding, reasoning, and multimodality are expected to drive disruptive changes across many fields. Agent technologies will deepen their integration into development toolchains, potentially creating new professional roles and skill requirements, prompting programmers to balance AI reliance with solid foundational coding abilities.

2. Breakthrough in Motion Asset Delivery: Vision Platform Admission/Exit Scheme

Kuaishou's Vision platform addresses motion‑asset delivery challenges by introducing an admission‑exit detection mechanism. After analyzing pain points in the existing workflow, the platform added static and dynamic detection services to ensure asset quality and performance. The system has successfully recalled and prevented multiple online incidents, improving stability and efficiency for motion‑resource usage.

3. Common Misunderstandings About Electron

The open‑source Electron project does not aim to persuade anyone to adopt it; instead, the author emphasizes a belief that web technologies can build user interfaces and expresses a preference for bundling a rendering engine, without spending time on promotional arguments.

4. Moving Toward Pure ESM (ECMAScript Modules)

By 2025, a decade after ESM’s debut in 2015, modern tools and libraries are increasingly adopting ESM as the primary module format. According to WOOORM’s script, ESM packages accounted for 7.8% of npm releases in 2021, rising to 25.8% by the end of 2024, indicating a clear shift despite the continued presence of many CommonJS packages.

5. React Introduces Native Animation Support

React remains one of the most popular frontend frameworks, yet its animation capabilities have long been considered a weakness. While frameworks like Vue and Svelte provide built‑in animation APIs, React developers have traditionally relied on third‑party libraries such as Motion for React and React Spring to fill the gap. The recent introduction of native animation support marks a significant improvement for the ecosystem.