Late last week, the global cloud platform Cloudflare acquired the company behind Astro, one of the leading frontend frameworks. This follows a pattern of popular frameworks coming under the umbrella of platform companies — or at least becoming financially supported by them.
This trend perhaps began in 2021, when Vercel hired Svelte creator Rich Harris. That same year, WordPress vendor Automattic acquired a React framework company called Frontity. In 2022, the global e-commerce company Shopify acquired Remix. In 2023, Netlify acquired…

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