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'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' (npmjs.com)
An anonymous reader shares some new statistics from Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm (the package manager/software registry for JavaScript):
The sum of all the package downloads in the npm Registry shows that the npm ecosystem continues to experience explosive, continuous growth... Right now, we estimate about 75% of all JavaScript developers use npm, and that number is rising quickly to reach 100%. We believe there are about 10 million npm users right now.
The first post in a three-part series graphs the popularity and growth rate for seven JavaScript frameworks.
The first post in a three-part series graphs the popularity and growth rate for seven JavaScript frameworks.
- Preact is tiny but the fastest-growing.
- Vue is also very fast growing and neck and neck with Ember, Angular and Backbone
- Ember has grown more popular in the last 12 months.
- Angular and Backbone have both declined in popularity.
- jQuery remains hugely popular but decreasingly so.
- React is both huge and very fast-growing for its size.
Node.js developer here. I've written probably 10K+ lines of jQuery code. I wouldn't start a new project using the push-pull DOM based approach jQuery offers. I've written enough React to know it's a far superior, data-driven approach.
Now, I do use Babel, which is a little harder to defend. At some point, there will be no point in transpiling ES6 to ES5 code. But that moment hasn't yet arrived. Node.js still doesn't support ES6 imports, except in 'experimental' mode. I use them because they have a much cleaner syntax than CommonJS require().
As for other libraries--why would you rewrite from scratch code that you can obtain from the internet and is well-tested, often written by people more knowledgeable than you? You should be focusing your efforts on your code business, and leave stuff like data-caching, transport, authentication, animation, responsiveness, etc. to people and companies who are actually good at it. The best you can hope for is to spend time rediscovering all the mistakes they encountered.
If you post it, they will read.
Nothing on the web, including Javascript itself, is good, solid, portable, and tested. If these frameworks were stable, they wouldn't be updated literally every day!
Most frameworks I've come across are for convenience, not portability. I've had my fill of frameworks that did batshit insane stuff, like testing for features by probing for the browser's trademark name, all in the name of delivering bleeding-edge features for the lazy that shouldn't be used in the first place.