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The Linux Foundation’s OpenJS Foundation 2021 End-of-Year Update, published November 18, 2021, recapped the foundation’s JavaScript projects, corporate support, and ecosystem work. It described OpenJS as hosting 38 projects at the time; that is a historical figure, not a current project count.

What the 2021 update covered

The update framed JavaScript as a widely used technology and described OpenJS as a global community formed by the merger of the Node.js and JS Foundations. It said the foundation hosted 38 JavaScript projects in 2021, including Node.js, AMP, Electron, jQuery, webpack, Node-RED, and Appium. These names and the count reflect the article’s publication-era account, not a verified 2026 portfolio.

The Linux Foundation article also stated that more than 97 percent of the world’s websites use JavaScript. It did not identify the underlying study or a separate source for that number, so it should be read as a claim made in the 2021 update rather than as a sourced current statistic.

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How companies participated

The article described OpenJS as member-supported, with companies contributing financial support and participating in governance. It named IBM, Google, Joyent, Microsoft, GoDaddy, and Netflix among established supporters, and said American Express, Bloomberg, Coinbase, NodeXperts, Sentry, and Stream joined in 2021. This is a historical list, not a current membership roster.

Netflix and Node.js

As an example of company use and contribution, the update said Netflix had been a Node.js end-user and contributor since 2013. It described a serverless Node.js platform supporting device interfaces and web applications for content production. This is the company example presented by the article, not an independently tested case study.

Bloomberg and standards work

The article said Bloomberg contributed to core projects and participated in standards work, including work on the JavaScript language itself. It quoted Bloomberg as saying it had more than 10,000 frontend apps, tens of millions of lines of JavaScript code, and more than 2,000 software engineers writing JavaScript. Those figures were Bloomberg’s account as quoted in the 2021 update.

Governance and the ecosystem’s direction

At OpenJS World 2021, Board President Todd Moore and Executive Director Robin Ginn delivered an opening keynote about maintaining stability and openness in shared technologies while recognizing that participants have different needs. Moore, identified in the article as IBM’s VP of Open Technology and Developer Advocacy, described why IBM and its customers supported projects hosted by OpenJS.

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“IBM and our customers today rely upon many of the open source JavaScript projects hosted at the OpenJS Foundation — it’s in all our economic interests to invest in that technology as it is the plumbing that creates the opportunity for all of us to share in.”

Todd Moore, OpenJS Board President and IBM VP of Open Technology and Developer Advocacy, as identified in the 2021 article

Ginn summarized the foundation’s purpose: “Our goal at OpenJS is to incubate and sustain a healthy JavaScript ecosystem.”

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What the update does—and does not—tell readers

The article’s central point was an invitation for organizations to help sustain the JavaScript ecosystem through participation. Its examples span financial support, governance, project contributions, and standards work. It is not a consumer product announcement or a recommendation to buy anything.

Because the article was published in November 2021, it does not establish OpenJS’s current membership, project count, leadership, project status, or program availability. For the source’s full historical account, see The Linux Foundation’s OpenJS Foundation 2021 End-of-Year Update.

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