...and usage != "better".
GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
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Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#32Why 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.
I agree. The use of "Blowing away" in the title is incendiary and unnecessary.
It would be far better to state the metric they're using, i.e. "GitHub Stars !== Usage: React downloads still surpass Vue and Angular"
It's taken React about 2-3 years to go from being head to head with Angular(JS) to being the dominant frontend ecosystem. I expect within 2-3 years Vue and React will be on far more equal footing in terms of usage and jobs. (Assuming something else doesn't come along and topple the current trend towards reactive frontend tools.)
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#33I for one measure my developer e-peen (used to get me real women interwebz dates) by how many stars my framework of choices uses. I am shocked and appalled by these findings.
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#34People 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…
Yeah, a more interesting article would be "Github Stars === x", because I've never been sure what they're for.
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#35A lot of people using Vue just link Vue from a CDN and drop it in a webpage as a script, without using NPM. Does the stats account that fact? Sure you can do that with React as well, but you wont in production with JSX as one needs to compile it with node.js toolchain. Same for Angular. Vue usage is more like jQuery usage than React in practice.
You can also look at job postings as another metric of popularity. Last I checked, Vue wasn't sought nearly as much as React.
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#36I think that Vue.js is on the ascendance. I mentioned this earlier. It is on track to exceed React.js if things continue in this fashion. Github stars are a reflection of interest. I do worry that Vue.js is mostly one guy, you like to at least have a higher bus factor than one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Vue was started by one guy. Vue is lead by one guy. But there's a core team behind Vue and it's growing ;<).
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#37React is indeed the new jQuery.
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#38A lot of people using Vue just link Vue from a CDN and drop it in a webpage as a script, without using NPM. Does the stats account that fact? Sure you can do that with React as well, but you wont in production with JSX as one needs to compile it with node.js toolchain. Same for Angular. Vue usage is more like jQuery usage than React in practice.
unpkg stats:
React 138,829,602
VueJs 33,952,225
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#39While Vue fits my brain _way_ better, most companies use React. Why? Their decision makers feel safer. (FB backing)
This makes me reluctant to jump in and burn bridges.
Re: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
#40One thing to think about is what is the motivation/incentive for someone to take a specific action. For me personally, I will "star" something that I find interesting AND I think I might forget how to find it again. Example: people might forget the exact name/repo for colors.js so they will be incentivized to star it, but no one will forget "apache".
That's why vue might gain more stars than the current dominant players (react and/or angular)