GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by KeitIG » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:46 PM UTC

Of course GitHub stars do not show usage, it shows interest. Considering Vue came later, we can also say its interest grew much faster.

There is no winner anyway, both React and Vue are amazing tools giving you the power to solve the same problem in different ways: building UIs.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by hinkley » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:47 PM UTC

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we all walked to school uphill, everybody used Struts for server side page rendering.

And at least a half of them hated it. When something better came along they dropped it like a rock.

Usage is a poor predictor of future sucesses. If people ar rooting for someone else, people have already started turning on you.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by 49531 » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

kankroc wrote: post #6

People have wildly different views on what Github stars are. Some see it as a way to bookmark project you find interesting while other simply stars whenever they feel like the project is impressive. Bottomline is: it's not a good metric, it's simply a way to see how "popular" something is and how likely it is that some random developer saw your project. While anecdotal, I've starred Vue because I see it as a cool pro…

Also having created, promoted, and contributed to repositories with >100 stars it seems that ~10% of people who view the repository will star it. Not sure how reliable it is but I've always taken stars to indicate how many people have seen the project.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by gakos » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:50 PM UTC

Appreciate !== vs !=, no type conversion on Stars and Usage in comparison. Also, agreed. Would be more interesting to crawl all repos to see which have React vs Vue vs Angular for a more detailed understanding of usage.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by taylorswift_ » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:50 PM UTC

Why do people care which framework "blows" the other one away? In my opinion, it literally doesn't matter at all and arguing over such things seems amateur.

Use whatever tool gets the job done.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by toufique » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:50 PM UTC

GitHub Stars !== Usage. GitHub Stars ~ Interestingness.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

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Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by IanDrake » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:52 PM UTC

I wonder to what extent npm downloads can be attributed to version changes.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by briandear » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:52 PM UTC

gakos wrote: post #14

Appreciate !== vs !=, no type conversion on Stars and Usage in comparison. Also, agreed. Would be more interesting to crawl all repos to see which have React vs Vue vs Angular for a more detailed understanding of usage.

Except most professional projects would be private or on GitHub Enterprise so even that metric would have some severe selection bias.

Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

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Post by frou_dh » Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

While we're talking about starring, here's a great webapp that lets you tag and organise your existing GitHub stars beyond the anemic official capability (filter by language)

https://astralapp.com/

(I'm unaffiliated)