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What conclusions can be drawn from this? If any?
by announcerman 8y ago
What conclusions can be drawn from this? If any?
- mratzloff 8y ago1. People over-index on pointless measures.
- baybal2 8y agoJS ecosystem's trends are as stable and predictable as English weather.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoFUD; what major upheaval has been in the field since idk, Vue was released?
- baybal2 8y agoMajor upheaval? I think big dotcoms efforts to forcefully push their vapourwares onto the dev community in attempt to gain developers' "mindshare" reaching a point when that becomes genuinely obnoxious.
- borplk 8y agoThat's a bit of an outdated meme. There are lots of micro libraries because there's zero barrier to putting something on github and NPM, and there's a huge population of people wanting to practice and demonstrate their programming skill. Many of those are irrelevant. Guess what? Me throwing a "cool-cucumber.js" library doesn't obligate anyone to learn or keep up with it. It's like a random author publishing a random book. Who cares? you don't have to read it. The rest is much more stable. There's a bit of fluff on the surface but underneath is not changing that much.
- WalterSear 8y agoPeople fear things outside their comfort zone, and resist understanding them. My father is afraid of git. My sister in law is afraid of open source software. And, that fear is reflected in their career choices and the quality of their code.
- jonjojr 8y agoAngular and React are getting bloated. Vue is still one of the few frameworks that stays lean. Easier learning curve by new developers trying to pick a front end framework.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoAngular has always been bloated, but, how has React gotten bloated? Do explain.
- paulirwin 8y agoI was also surprised by that comment. I just checked and React still has on the order of less than 30 methods/properties in its entire public API surface. Vue.js has quite a bit more. If the parent means by byte count, React + ReactDOM is about 32.5KB, Vue is 30.3KB. Not a dramatic difference in byte bloat, either.
- wolco 8y agoIt's the ecosystem that makes it seem bloated. 32k vs 30k is nothing.
- sotojuan 8y agoEvery new developer I know is picking React because that's what the jobs want.
- ronnier 8y agoNot many. I read that Vue is popular in China. From a comment on Reddit: > 1.6 million weekly downloads for React vs. 200k weekly downloads for Vue. I don't think the GitHub stars measure much. People are downloading react at approximately 8 times the rate of vue. * https://www.npmjs.com/package/react https://www.npmjs.com/package/react * https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue
- Reedx 8y agoSomething to note though: This doesn't count the mirror registries in China. Also Vue devs may be more likely to use CDN links. (I would still bet that React is used much more yet, just noting that the NPM comparison doesn't tell the whole story - nor does the stars comparison)
- wolco 8y agoHow many are for udemy related tutorials verus new projects? I bet the numbers are closer.
- gooseus 8y agoIf X is the number of times that a Github repo star button has been clicked, minus the times that it has been un-clicked, then as of today X_vuejs > X_reactjs. I'd be curious of what other metrics Github stars correlates with (# of applications in production, $ in revenue/investment, etc.), but I suppose if Vue ends up replacing React in clear popularity that some will point to this as a significant moment in that history.