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> I'm surprised the author thinks that Flow is more popular amongst the React community than Typescript. I hardly ever hear about Flow, and I work with React an
by styfle 9y ago
> I'm surprised the author thinks that Flow is more popular amongst the React community than Typescript. I hardly ever hear about Flow, and I work with React and follow it's development.
Agreed. Perhaps the thought that Flow is more popular in the React community comes from people who are not using either Flow or TypeScript? In my experience, I rarely ever see Flow being used in the wild.
Another metric we can look at to estimate popularity is the number of questions on StackOverflow.
Flow has 1K https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flowtype https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flowtype
TypeScript has 37K https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/typescript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/typescript
Also looking at NPM downloads this month:
Flow has 1M https://www.npmjs.com/package/flow-bin https://www.npmjs.com/package/flow-bin
TypeScript has 7M https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript