OpenJS Foundation
The OpenJS Foundation provides a neutral, vendor-independent home for sustaining JavaScript and web-technology open-source projects. It promotes adoption and continued development, facilitates collaboration, provides shared infrastructure and governance, and funds activities that improve the long-term health and accessibility of the ecosystem.
At a Glance
- JavaScript and web developers
- Open-source maintainers and contributor communities
- Technology companies and enterprise end users
- IoT and industrial application teams
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AI Tools by OpenJS Foundation
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Node-RED
Low Code Flow Based Programming
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Latest News
OpenJS Foundation launches the Security Stewardship Program to fund ecosystem-wide vulnerability work
OpenJS Foundation statement regarding the $NVM token
OpenJS Foundation CNA announces a coordinated security-operations break from September 17 to October 6, 2026
NativeScript 9.1 released with Node-API support and a rebuilt Vitest-based device test runner
Products & Services
Neutral governance, infrastructure, community programs, and lifecycle support for open-source JavaScript and web projects, including Node.js, Electron, jQuery, webpack, ESLint, Jest, Fastify, NativeScript, Lit, and others.
JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine; a core project in the OpenJS ecosystem.
Flow-based, low-code programming environment built on Node.js for event-driven applications, IoT, hardware, APIs, and online services. It offers a browser-based flow editor, single-click deployment, reusable JSON flows, an extensible node palette, and a community library of more than 5,000 nodes.
Small, fast library for standards-based web components with reactive state, scoped styles, and declarative templates.
Market Position
OpenJS is not a conventional software vendor; it competes for ecosystem stewardship, corporate membership, and project affiliation with other neutral open-source foundations and Linux Foundation-hosted projects. Its differentiation is a JavaScript-specific, vendor-neutral center combining technical governance through the CPC, project lifecycle management, shared infrastructure, ecosystem security programs, and member/community coordination across a large portfolio of interoperable projects.
Leadership
Executive Team
Robin Bender Ginn
Executive Director
Former Microsoft executive who led open-source initiatives, co-founded @OpenAtMicrosoft, helped shape Microsoft's Node.js involvement, and previously led marketing and communications at Healthcare NExT; she also worked across Microsoft Open Technologies, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft's Developer Division.
Benjamin Sternthal
Program Director
Listed by the OpenJS Foundation as Program Director; the foundation team is supported through the Linux Foundation for communications, marketing, and program operations.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
The foundation was formed in March 2019 through the merger of the Node.js Foundation and the JS Foundation. The organizations had increasingly collaborated because JavaScript projects are interconnected; the merger was intended to eliminate operational duplication, streamline member support, coordinate work with standards bodies, and create one neutral center for projects and ecosystem sustainability. The immediate predecessor organizations were established with Linux Foundation support (Node.js Foundation in 2015 and JS Foundation in 2016), but the OpenJS Foundation's own formation was the 2019 merger.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Member-supported nonprofit model funded primarily by corporate and end-user membership, with project sponsorships and targeted ecosystem/security funding. The foundation also receives in-kind support and project donations; for example, Google Open Source donated Lit, and the 2025 security work was supported by Alpha-Omega funding.
Pricing Tiers
Corporate membership tier; public governance materials identify Platinum directors, but the official pages reviewed do not publish a price.
Corporate membership tier; public governance materials identify Gold directors, but the official pages reviewed do not publish a price.
Corporate membership tier; public governance materials identify Silver directors, but the official pages reviewed do not publish a price.
Membership category represented on the board; the official pages reviewed do not publish a price.
Target Markets
- JavaScript and web developers
- Open-source maintainers and contributor communities
- Technology companies and enterprise end users
- IoT and industrial application teams
- Web-platform and standards developers
- Organizations needing neutral open-source governance
- Sustaining and governing widely used open-source JavaScript runtimes, frameworks, libraries, and tooling
- Building web applications and standards-based web components
- Event-driven and IoT application development with Node-RED
- Cross-platform desktop application development with Electron
- Mobile automation with Appium
- Enterprise use of open-source JavaScript with neutral governance and security support
- Node-RED is used for IoT and event-driven applications; its ecosystem includes more than 5,000 community nodes.
- Google's internal codebase contains more than 10,000 Lit custom elements across dozens of teams.
- Adobe uses Lit in Photoshop and Illustrator for Web and Spectrum Web Components.
- Reddit uses Lit across much of its modern web frontend, including desktop and mobile web experiences.