The Web is evolving.
And so are we.

A look back at 2021

Our team
got bigger better.

We hired 131 new teammates from 25 states and 22 countries.

Our community is
stronger than ever.

We hosted the largest virtual gathering of Next.js developers.

40k

attendees

Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, joined the team to work on Svelte full-time.

We acquired Turborepo, a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases.

Even Kendrick Lamar joined in on the movement.

We kept working for open source.

Open source contributions

Sponsorships

and more

2,245,421

npm downloads per week

+116% since January 2021

in Frameworksand React Ecosystem

in overallJavaScript projects

37,522,384

total builds in 2021

35+

frameworks withzero-config support

175

sponsoredVercel projects

We can’t see the
future
but we have
some predictions.

The Web will be Edge‑first.

More developers will embrace edge infrastructure because of its better performance and greater flexibility. As a result, more dev tools and frameworks will be built with the edge in mind.

“We have a global customer base and it’s important to us that our speed is unbiased regardless of location. When we deploy with Vercel, users around the world are instantly served our latest site at an edge near them. With our previous provider, visitors were often being served from an edge in the U.S. even if they were in Asia or Europe.”

Mehdi Mulani

Software Engineer, Read.cv

2.8B

Edge Function requests since launching in late October 2021

Geolocation

Use Edge Functions to determine a user's location

Simple A/B Testing

Run A/B tests from the server-side

Basic Auth

Password protection for your page at the Edge

“Personalization and feature flags are not just for tech giants. A lot of the way software is built has not been democratized yet due to a lack of good public infrastructure. Developers are going to start looking for tooling with great DX that’s built with the edge in mind.”

Guillermo Rauch

CEO of Vercel

Speed and flexibility will define developer tooling.

As our favorite frameworks get faster and tools like Turborepo make monorepos more accessible, developers will experience improved workflows and fewer headaches.

Teams have saved

115
days

with Turborepo’s remote caching
on Vercel

faster builds with Next.js 12

“Software development should be about making beautiful, performant, and secure websites. Modern frameworks like Next.js are LEGO bricks for developers and Vercel is the foundation they build on. More and more organizations are choosing workflows that eliminate friction from the software development lifecycle and put developers first.”

Kathy Korevec

VP of Product at Vercel

Real-time data will lead to better user experiences.

Developers will rely on real user data to improve site performance and create faster, more innovative experiences than ever before.

85%

faster load times

70%

increase in overall performance

“2022 is shaping up to be a watershed year for Svelte. The imminent stable release of SvelteKit will give every kind of developer a rock-solid foundation for building apps faster than ever before. We want to make full-stack web development accessible to everyone.”

Rich Harris

Creator of Svelte

Web development will get more collaborative (with less code).

Low-code and no-code tools will continue to gain popularity, empowering more stakeholders across the organization to participate in Web projects.

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"2022 will unify the React ecosystem around Suspense for data fetching, optimizations, and tooling. We'll also start seeing further unification of CSS tooling and delivery in the ecosystem.”

Sebastian Markbåge

React Contributor at Vercel

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