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State of JavaScript 2021

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Re: State of JavaScript 2021

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post #48

Only 22% make above $100k? [0] Those salary demographics makes me doubt the entire data set. Over 40% of respondents make less than $50k [0] https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/demographics/#yearly_salary Edit: Only 14% of respondents are in the US, which probably explains the above.

Yes, there's a "By Country" tab.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

#53
post #22

I read this report every year. This year it feels the most like it's driven by hype (and marketing, hi Vercel!). In my professional and personal experience, react has never been better to use (in terms of features, DX, maturity, community, productivity), yet if you look at the "popularity" (oh dear) graph, it's basically just describing how older tech slides down while newer shiny tech comes in and is instantly the m…

React is becoming a boring technology and that's a good thing.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

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post #7

Interested in the steady drop in satisfaction with Vue since 2018. I remember being positively impressed when I looked into it. Is it simply due to more usage in actual systems causing people to dislike tools they really work with, or is the framework developing in a direction people are unhappy with?

Most likely due to vue 2 to 3 transition. Vue 3 introduced many improvements and breaking changes. This also made many libraries lose compatibility with Vue 3. Not a good thing.

While vue 3 was soft launched a year ago. The transition is still happening. With Vue 3 becoming default last week(feb 7). And major vue frameworks (vuetify and nuxt) just still working to support vue 3.

I expect satisfaction to increase next year, when ecosystem catches up. And dissatisfied folks switch to other options.

One thing to note is v2.7 is still shrouded darkness. Now, that major vue 3 work is done, Clarity and good support on v2.7 will also improve satisfaction.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

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post #48

Only 22% make above $100k? [0] Those salary demographics makes me doubt the entire data set. Over 40% of respondents make less than $50k [0] https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/demographics/#yearly_salary Edit: Only 14% of respondents are in the US, which probably explains the above.

There is a per country tab.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

#56
post #7

Interested in the steady drop in satisfaction with Vue since 2018. I remember being positively impressed when I looked into it. Is it simply due to more usage in actual systems causing people to dislike tools they really work with, or is the framework developing in a direction people are unhappy with?

Maybe the Vue 3 transition and its composition API.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

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post #48

Only 22% make above $100k? [0] Those salary demographics makes me doubt the entire data set. Over 40% of respondents make less than $50k [0] https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/demographics/#yearly_salary Edit: Only 14% of respondents are in the US, which probably explains the above.

There's also a tab that divides it up by country. In the US, 58.4% makes $100k-$200k, and 16.1% over $200k.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

#58
post #4

Gulp build tool not receiving much love lately with a very strong "Would not use again". Why so? https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/build-tools/#buil...

I might be getting that question totally wrong, but faced with the question of "would you use gulp for a new project" my answer would also be "no", altough I think that gulp is a nice and totally workable tool.

The thing is that gulp doesn't really have all that much to offer these days. If you need lots of complex build logic webpack is the way to go. If simple & fast is the desired goal then something like esbuild or swc do a much better job, especially in the "fast" section.

And if none of these tools are what you want you could always use make (and bazel would also be possible I think, not sure though). Or maybe just plain tsc is enough.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

#59
post #8

Depending on your age (guess what!) the age demographics is absolutely scary :-)

65 year olds don't do javascript. which is explainable since javascript itself is ~28 years old and node.js is like 15?

People aren't born knowledge of the programming languages at their time of birth, 65 year olds can do JavaScript just fine, it isn't even anything weird as a language :-P.

I think it is more likely that, largely, there are way more 25-34 programmers than 65+ programmers out there.

Re: State of JavaScript 2021

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As someone new to front-end and who will probably only be building small hobbyist stuff by myself, is the mountain climb that is mastering React worth it? From my initial look into it, it seems incredibly complex.
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