
'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' (npmjs.com) 114
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.