9 TIMES THE WEB PLATFORM WAS INFLUENCED BY LIBRARIES

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

The web platform has historically evolved by adopting and standardizing APIs that were first developed and battle-tested by popular third-party JavaScript libraries. Innovations such as `querySelector`, `classList`, and declarative UI attributes originated in tools like jQuery and Bootstrap before becoming native browser features. Modern language capabilities, including Promises, ES Modules, and the `structuredClone` method, also came from community-driven solutions.