Front end frameworks popularity (React, Vue and Angular)

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/a5r76w/once_every_23_years_a_new_front_end_framework_wins/ebouw5o

The only chart that shows Vue outperforming others is GitHub stars (1). All the others charts show the opposite.

2018/12/16

NPM downloads

NPM packages depending on (updated: 12.09.19)

React: 44,814 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/react
Vue: 18,519 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue
Angular 2+: 9,029 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/core
AngularJS: 3,931 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular

GitHub topics (updated: 12.09.19)

React: 67,690 repositories https://github.com/topics/react
Vue: 19,983 repositories https://github.com/topics/vue
Angular: 18,766 repositories https://github.com/topics/angular

Reddit metrics

http://redditmetrics.com/r/reactjs#compare=vuejs+angular2+angular

Stack Overflow trends

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=reactjs%2Cvue.js%2Cangular%2Cangularjs%2Cjquery

Google trends

![trends.google.com]https://i.imgur.com/UcTaHdB.png[/img]

YouTube

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&gprop=youtube&q=React%20javascript,Vue%20javascript,Angular%20javascript

Developer Tools

https://twitter.com/olivtassinari/status/1091485530813018113 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qKRyNn4pkChcO-Q_g-nFksUZdQmsd8SG5csDSBeM5Nw

Chrome extensions
- react-devtools: 1,829,133 users https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-tools/fmkadmapgofadopljbjfkapdkoienihi
- vue-devtools: 982,669 users https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vuejs-devtools/nhdogjmejiglipccpnnnanhbledajbpd
Firefox add-ons
- react-devtools: 64,988 users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/react-devtools/
- vue-devtools: 36,982 users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vue-js-devtools/

Twitter

React: 336K followers https://twitter.com/reactjs
Vue: 139K followers https://twitter.com/vuejs
Angular: 337K followers https://twitter.com/angular

(could not find hashtags trends)

Hacker News Hiring Trends

https://www.hntrends.com/2018/dec-react-closes-out-dominant-2018.html?compare=React&compare=Vue&compare=AngularJS

Indeed

Paris, France
- React: 567 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/emplois?q=react+javascript&l=Paris
- Vue: 269 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/emplois?q=vue+javascript&l=Paris
- Angular: 764 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/emplois?q=angular+javascript&l=Paris
London, UK
- React: 1,695 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=React+javascript&l=London
- Vue: 291 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=Vue+javascript&l=London
- Angular: 1,207 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=Angular+javascript&l=London
Berlin, Germany
- React: 614 jobs https://de.indeed.com/Jobs?q=react+javascript&l=Berlin
- Vue: 172 jobs https://de.indeed.com/Jobs?q=vue+javascript&l=Berlin
- Angular: 382 jobs https://de.indeed.com/Jobs?q=angular+javascript&l=Berlin
Mumbai, India
- React: 145 jobs https://www.indeed.co.in/jobs?q=react+javascript&l=Mumbai%2C+Maharashtra
- Vue: 23 jobs https://www.indeed.co.in/jobs?q=vue+javascript&l=Mumbai%2C+Maharashtra
- Angular: 318 jobs https://www.indeed.co.in/jobs?q=angular+javascript&l=Mumbai%2C+Maharashtra

(could not find worldwide charts)

stateofjs.com 2018 survey (20,268 developers)

https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/overview/

React satisfaction: 90.60% 100-(100/(13062+1355)*1355) for 14,417 users
Vue satisfaction: 91.15% 100-(100/(5810+564)*564) for 6,374 users
Angular (AngularJS + Angular 2+?) satisfaction: 41.37% 100-(100/(4817+6826)*6826) for 11,643 users

Stack Overflow 2018 survey (+100,000 developers)

JetBrains survey

2018 (6,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/javascript/
- React: 60% regularly use
- Vue: 33% regularly use
- AngularJS: 21% regularly use
- Angular 2+: 20% regularly use
2017 (5,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2017/javascript/
- React: 49% regularly use
- Vue: 20% regularly use
- AngularJS: 44% regularly use
- Angular 2+: 22% regularly use

SimilarTech: market share & web usage statistics

React: 420,066 websites, 35.4% last month grow, 196,048 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/react-js
Vue: 54,881 websites, 14.1% last month grow, 40,033 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/vuejs
AngularJS: 325,339 websites, 7.15% last month grow, 171,570 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/angular-js

httparchive.org JavaScript Library Detection

If someone has other charts, please share.

Some dates

AngularJS
- First announcement: 2010/10/20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS
- GitHub repository creation: 2010/01/06
React
- First announcement: 2013/05/29 https://blog.risingstack.com/the-history-of-react-js-on-a-timeline/
- GitHub repository creation: 2013/05/24
Vue
- First announcement: 2014/02/03 (9 months after React) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7169288 http://blog.evanyou.me/2014/02/11/first-week-of-launching-an-oss-project/
- GitHub repository creation: 2013/07/29
Angular 2+
- First announcement: 2014/10/22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_(application_platform)#Version_2
- GitHub repository creation: 2014/09/18

Why Vue has so many GitHub stars?

Vue is popular and highly regarded (91.15% satisfaction). But why Vue GitHub stars don't follow the other trends (NPM downloads, NPM dependencies, GitHub topics, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Google, YouTube...)?

https://www.timqian.com/star-history/#facebook/react&vuejs/vue&angular/angular

GitHub stars is believed to be a bad measure: https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1007727882095886336
"Vue sub people were talking about banding together to boost its stars on github": maybe, I could not find any confirmation of this claim
Vue community obsessed about GitHub stars? That could add
Buzz/hype? Most probably, a GitHub star is just a click
Vue is popular in China (because its documentation is available in Chinese and its author Evan You was born there) and some tools aren't used in China (Google, npmjs.com, Indeed, Hacker News...)