Findings: React is by far the most popular front-end framework (and continues to grow faster), except for the GitHub stars. In addition, React is more loved and "wanted" than other front-end frameworks (although it is more used: satisfaction tends to decrease with popularity).
Charts are from different sources and thus colors are inconsistent, please carefully read the chart's legends.
NPM downloads
- https://www.npmtrends.com/react-vs-vue-vs-@angular/core
- https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=react&package=vue&package=%40angular%2Fcore&from=2014-12-12&to=2019-12-19
NPM packages depending on
2019/12/12:
- React: 48,718 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/react
- Vue: 21,575 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue
- Angular 2+: 9,610 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/core
- AngularJS: 3,969 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular
2018/12/16:
- React: 32,331 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/react
- Vue: 9,792 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue
- Angular 2+: 7,555 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/core
- AngularJS: 3,693 dependents https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular
GitHub "Used by"
2019/12/12:
- React: 2,833,268 Repositories, 109,242 Packages https://github.com/facebook/react/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS0xMzM2NDkxNg%3D%3D
- Vue: 1,157,774 Repositories, 35,410 Packages https://github.com/vuejs/vue/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS00OTM3Mjg3MDY%3D
GitHub topics
2019/12/12:
- React: 73,458 repositories https://github.com/topics/react
- Vue: 21,776 repositories https://github.com/topics/vue
- Angular: 20,142 repositories https://github.com/topics/angular
2018/12/16:
- React: 50,517 repositories https://github.com/topics/react
- Vue: 14,624 repositories https://github.com/topics/vue
- Angular: 14,823 repositories https://github.com/topics/angular
Reddit metrics
http://redditmetrics.com/r/reactjs#compare=vuejs+angular2+angular
Stack Overflow trends
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=reactjs%2Cvue.js%2Cangular%2Cangularjs
Google trends
- https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=733&date=today%205-y&q=React,Vue,Angular
- https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=31&date=today%205-y&q=React%20javascript,Vue%20javascript,Angular%20javascript
YouTube
Developer Tools
https://twitter.com/olivtassinari/status/1091485530813018113 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qKRyNn4pkChcO-Q_g-nFksUZdQmsd8SG5csDSBeM5Nw
2019/12/12:
- Chrome extensions
- react-devtools: 1,990,443 users https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-tools/fmkadmapgofadopljbjfkapdkoienihi
- vue-devtools: 1,093,143 users https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vuejs-devtools/nhdogjmejiglipccpnnnanhbledajbpd
- Firefox add-ons
- react-devtools: 99,457 users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/react-devtools/
- vue-devtools: 68,007 users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vue-js-devtools/
2018/12/16:
- Chrome extensions
- react-devtools: 1,374,221 users https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-tools/fmkadmapgofadopljbjfkapdkoienihi
- vue-devtools: 719,783 users https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vuejs-devtools/nhdogjmejiglipccpnnnanhbledajbpd
- Firefox add-ons
- react-devtools: 64,988 users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/react-devtools/
- vue-devtools: 36,982 users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vue-js-devtools/
2019/12/12:
- React: 355.4K followers https://twitter.com/reactjs
- Vue: 149.3K followers https://twitter.com/vuejs
- Angular: 345.9K followers https://twitter.com/angular
2018/12/16:
- React: 278K followers https://twitter.com/reactjs
- Vue: 102K followers https://twitter.com/vuejs
- Angular: 304K followers https://twitter.com/angular
(could not find hashtags trends)
Hacker News Hiring Trends
Indeed
2019/12/12:
- Paris, France
- React: 759 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/Paris-Emplois-react-javascript
- Vue: 336 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/Paris-Emplois-vue-javascript
- Angular: 785 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/Paris-Emplois-angular-javascript
- London, UK
- React: 1,643 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/React-javascript-jobs-in-London
- Vue: 286 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/Vue-javascript-jobs-in-London
- Angular: 832 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/Angular-javascript-jobs-in-London
- Berlin, Germany
- React: 634 jobs https://de.indeed.com/react-javascript-Jobs-in-Berlin
- Vue: 212 jobs https://de.indeed.com/vue-javascript-Jobs-in-Berlin
- Angular: 356 jobs https://de.indeed.com/angular-javascript-Jobs-in-Berlin
- Mumbai, India
2018/12/16:
- Paris, France
- React: 567 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/emplois?q=react+javascript&l=Paris
- Vue: 269 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/emplois?q=vue+javascript&l=Paris
- Angular: 764 jobs https://www.indeed.fr/emplois?q=angular+javascript&l=Paris
- London, UK
- React: 1,695 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=React+javascript&l=London
- Vue: 291 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=Vue+javascript&l=London
- Angular: 1,207 jobs https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=Angular+javascript&l=London
- Berlin, Germany
- React: 614 jobs https://de.indeed.com/Jobs?q=react+javascript&l=Berlin
- Vue: 172 jobs https://de.indeed.com/Jobs?q=vue+javascript&l=Berlin
- Angular: 382 jobs https://de.indeed.com/Jobs?q=angular+javascript&l=Berlin
- Mumbai, India
(could not find worldwide charts)
Stack Overflow survey
2020 (65,000 developers): https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020
- Popularity: React.js 35.9%, Angular 25.1%, Vue.js 17.3%, Angular.js 16.1%
- Loved: React.js 68.9%, Vue.js 66.0%, Angular 54.0%, Angular.js 24.1%
- Dreaded: Angular.js 75.9%, Angular 46.0%, Vue.js 34.0%, React.js 31.1%
- Wanted: React.js 22.4%, Vue.js 16.4%, Angular 10.6%, Angular.js 7.7%
2019 (+90,000 developers): https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
- Popularity: React.js 31.3%, Angular/Angular.js 30.7%, Vue.js 15.2%
- Loved: React.js 74.5%, Vue.js 73.6%, Angular/Angular.js 57.6%
- Dreaded: Angular/Angular.js 42.4%, Vue.js 26.4%, React.js 25.5%
- Wanted: React.js 21.5%, Vue.js 16.1%, Angular/Angular.js 12.2%
2018 (+100,000 developers): https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018
- Popularity: Angular 36.9%, React 27.8%
- Loved: React 69.4%, Angular 54.6%
- Dreaded: Angular 45.4%, React 30.6%
- Wanted: React 21.3%, Angular 14.3%
stateofjs.com survey
2019 (21,717 respondents): https://2019.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/
- React satisfaction: 89.33%
100-(100/(14382+1717)*1717)for 16,099 users - Vue satisfaction: 87.14%
100-(100/(8122+1198)*1198)for 9,320 users - Angular (AngularJS + Angular 2+) satisfaction: 37.95%
100-(100/(4396+7186)*7186)for 11,582 users
2018 (20,268 developers): https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/overview/
- React satisfaction: 90.60%
100-(100/(13062+1355)*1355)for 14,417 users - Vue satisfaction: 91.15%
100-(100/(5810+564)*564)for 6,374 users - Angular (AngularJS + Angular 2+) satisfaction: 41.37%
100-(100/(4817+6826)*6826)for 11,643 users
JetBrains survey
-
2020 (19,696 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020/javascript/
- React: 64% regularly use
- Vue: 32% regularly use
- Angular 2+: 24% regularly use
- AngularJS: 11% regularly use
-
2019 (7,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/javascript/
- React: 54% regularly use
- Vue: 39% regularly use
- Angular 2+: 23% regularly use
- AngularJS: 14% regularly use
-
2018 (6,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/javascript/
- React: 60% regularly use
- Vue: 33% regularly use
- AngularJS: 21% regularly use
- Angular 2+: 20% regularly use
-
2017 (5,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2017/javascript/
- React: 49% regularly use
- Vue: 20% regularly use
- AngularJS: 44% regularly use
- Angular 2+: 22% regularly use
SimilarTech: market share & web usage statistics
2019/12/12:
- React: 1,069,073 websites, 0.83% last month grow, 287,997 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/react-js
- Vue: 157,831 websites, 1.54% last month grow, 91,509 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/vuejs
- AngularJS: 517,701 websites, 0.14% last month grow, 203,614 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/angular-js
2018/12/16:
- React: 420,066 websites, 35.4% last month grow, 196,048 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/react-js
- Vue: 54,881 websites, 14.1% last month grow, 40,033 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/vuejs
- AngularJS: 325,339 websites, 7.15% last month grow, 171,570 unique domains https://www.similartech.com/technologies/angular-js
BuiltWith Technology Lookup
2020/05/13
-
React: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/React
- Total Live 593,518
- French Live Sites 9,279
- Live and Historical 1,703,967
- Top 1m 4.24% 42,447
- Top 100k 12.2% 12,203
- Top 10k 24.84% 2,484
-
Vue: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/Vue
- Total Live 454,496
- French Live Sites 3,599
- Live and Historical 823,001
- Top 1m 2.26% 22,563
- Top 100k 4.82% 4,825
- Top 10k 8.75% 875
-
Angular: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/Angular
- Total Live 68,955
- French Live Sites 1,434
- Live and Historical 159,419
- Top 1m 0.7% 6,994
- Top 100k 2.06% 2,058
- Top 10k 4.25% 425
-
AngularJS: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/Angular-JS
- Total Live 1,048,962
- French Live Sites 14,642
- Live and Historical 3,601,485
- Top 1m 4.29% 42,904
- Top 100k 11.32% 11,320
- Top 10k 20.6% 2,060
httparchive.org JavaScript Library Detection
- https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/javascript-library-detection/955
- https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/javascript-library-detection/955/17
If someone has other charts, please share.
Some dates
- AngularJS
- First announcement: 2010/10/20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS
- GitHub repository creation: 2010/01/06
- React
- First announcement: 2013/05/29 https://blog.risingstack.com/the-history-of-react-js-on-a-timeline/
- GitHub repository creation: 2013/05/24
- Vue
- First announcement: 2014/02/03 (9 months after React) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7169288 http://blog.evanyou.me/2014/02/11/first-week-of-launching-an-oss-project/
- GitHub repository creation: 2013/07/29
- Angular 2+
- First announcement: 2014/10/22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_(application_platform)#Version_2
- GitHub repository creation: 2014/09/18
Why Vue has so many GitHub stars?
Vue is popular and highly regarded. But why Vue GitHub stars don't follow the other trends (NPM downloads, NPM dependencies, GitHub topics, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Google, YouTube...)?
https://star-history.t9t.io/#facebook/react&vuejs/vue&angular/angular
- GitHub stars is believed to be a bad measure: https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1007727882095886336
- "Vue sub people were talking about banding together to boost its stars on github": maybe, I could not find any confirmation of this claim
- Vue community obsessed about GitHub stars? That could add
- Buzz/hype? Most probably, a GitHub star is just a click
- Vue is popular in China (because its documentation is available in Chinese and its author Evan You was born there) and some tools aren't used in China (Google, npmjs.com, Indeed, Hacker News...)
What about Vue ecosystem? Does it get also a lot of GitHub stars?
- A router is one of the first piece of a SPA, let's look at vue-router (the official router for Vue) vs react-router (the de facto router for React)
https://star-history.t9t.io/#ReactTraining/react-router&vuejs/vue-router
- react-devtools vs vue-devtools
https://star-history.t9t.io/#facebook/react-devtools&vuejs/vue-devtools
- reactjs.org vs vuejs.org
https://star-history.t9t.io/#reactjs/reactjs.org&vuejs/vuejs.org
- redux vs mobx vs vuex
https://star-history.t9t.io/#reduxjs/redux&mobxjs/mobx&vuejs/vuex
- create-react-app vs vue-cli
https://star-history.t9t.io/#facebook/create-react-app&vuejs/vue-cli
- next vs nuxt
https://star-history.t9t.io/#zeit/next.js&nuxt/nuxt.js
- @material-ui/core vs @angular/material vs vuetify
https://star-history.t9t.io/#mui-org/material-ui&vuetifyjs/vuetify&angular/components
https://www.npmtrends.com/@material-ui/core-vs-vuetify-vs-@angular/material
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