Medium “JavaScript” tag statistics
How busy the JavaScript tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 13.1 days
Busier than 40% of 73 tracked tags
48% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 61 stories a day, JavaScript is busier than 40% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (62,342 followers per daily story) is higher than 71% of tags — more readers per story than average.
71% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 48% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 35% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.4 minutes to read.
Publications that publish JavaScript stories
| Publication | Followers | JavaScript stories (last 13.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 106 |
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 19 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 11 |
| CodeX | 37K | 6 |
| Javascript by doing | 63 | 4 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 3 |
| Many Minds | 44 | 3 |
| Selvi Infotech | 4 | 2 |
| The 60-Second Programmer | 22 | 2 |
| ITNEXT | 88K | 2 |
Top JavaScript stories right now
- D3Blocks: The Sweet Spot for Data Scientists. Interactive Charts Without Deployment Friction.
- You Learned to Speak Like the People Who Hurt You
- Bye bye, Deno!
- Advanced Asset Management in UiPath Orchestrator
- Build a Live Incident Room App with ToolJet MCP and Jev
- Stop Shipping Zone.js: What Angular 22’s OnPush-by-Default Actually Changes
- Multi-window web apps without syncing state
- I Finally Understood JavaScript Closures — Here’s the Simple Explanation
- Calling Rust from Node with napi-rs: 6x faster for heavy work, 19x slower for tiny calls
- 10 Distributed Systems Truths Most Developers Still Don’t Know
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the JavaScript tag on Medium?
- About 61 per day (426 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 13.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 263,138 stories in total.
- Is the JavaScript tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 40% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 62,342 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in JavaScript?
- 48% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 71% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.