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Front-end frameworks popularity (React, Vue, Angular and Svelte)

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Like this? Check React Native vs Flutter: https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/93f5278a4e8df7e5f6928eff98684979

Stack Overflow trends

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=reactjs%2Cvue.js%2Cangular%2Csvelte%2Cangularjs%2Cvuejs3

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Stack Overflow survey

Stack Overflow survey

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing

2023 (june 2023, +90,000 developers): https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/

  • Popularity: React 40.58%, Angular 17.46%, Vue.js 16.38%, AngularJS 7.21%, Svelte 6.62%, Solid.js 1.36%, Lit 0.68%
  • Desired: React 35.25%, Vue.js 17.42%, Svelte 14.18%, Angular 13.86%, Solid.js 4.93%, AngularJS 4.21%, Lit 0.92%
  • Admired: Svelte 74.50%, Solid.js 71.71%, React 63.61%, Vue.js 57.87%, Lit 55.71%, Angular 50.75%, AngularJS 19.22%

2022 (june 2022, +70,000 developers): https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/

  • Popularity: React.js 42.62%, Angular 20.39%, Vue.js 18.82%, Angular.js 8.99%, Svelte 4.58%
  • Loved: Svelte 75.28%, React.js 68.19%, Vue.js 63.16%, Angular 52.27%, Angular.js 21.01%
  • Want: React.js 22.54%, Vue.js 14.6%, Angular 7.18%, Svelte 9.34%, Angular.js 4.32%

2021 (august 2021, +80,000 developers): https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021

  • Popularity: React.js 40.14%, Angular 22.96%, Vue.js 18.97%, Angular.js 11.49%, Svelte 2.75%
  • Loved: Svelte 71.47%, React.js 69.28%, Vue.js 64.41%, Angular 55.82%, Angular.js 23.18%
  • Want: React.js 25.12%, Vue.js 16.69%, Angular 8.47%, Svelte 6.57%, Angular.js 5.8%

2020 (february 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%
  • Wanted: React.js 22.4%, Vue.js 16.4%, Angular 10.6%, Angular.js 7.7%

2019 (january 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%
  • Wanted: React.js 21.5%, Vue.js 16.1%, Angular/Angular.js 12.2%

2018 (january 2018, +100,000 developers): https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018

  • Popularity: Angular 36.9%, React 27.8%
  • Loved: React 69.4%, Angular 54.6%
  • Wanted: React 21.3%, Angular 14.3%

stateofjs.com survey

2022 (january 2023, 39,472 responses): https://2022.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-frameworks/

  • Solid satisfaction: 90.87% 100-(100/(1883+189)*189) for 2,072 users 1883+189
  • Svelte satisfaction: 89.62% 100-(100/(6296+729)*729) for 7,025 users 6296+729
  • React satisfaction: 82.95% 100-(100/(22637+4652)*4652) for 27,289 users 22637+4652
  • Vue satisfaction: 77.32% 100-(100/(11892+3487)*3487) for 15,379 users 11892+3487
  • Lit satisfaction: 70.75% 100-(100/(1442+596)*596) for 2,038 users 1442+596
  • AngularJS + Angular 2+ satisfaction: 42.62% 100-(100/(6929+9328)*9328) for 16,257 users 6929+9328

2021 (february 2022, 16,085 respondents): https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-frameworks/

  • Solid satisfaction: 89.47% 100-(100/(340+40)*40) for 380 users 340+40
  • Svelte satisfaction: 89.40% 100-(100/(2431+288)*288) for 2,719 users
  • React satisfaction: 83.65% 100-(100/(9082+1774)*1774) for 10,856 users
  • Vue satisfaction: 79.91% 100-(100/(5590+1405)*1405) for 6,995 users
  • Lit satisfaction: 77.28% 100-(100/(745+219)*219) for 964 users 745+219
  • AngularJS + Angular 2+ satisfaction: 44.73% 100-(100/(3306+4084)*4084) for 7,390 users

2020 (december 2020, 23,765 respondents): https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/technologies/front-end-frameworks/

  • Svelte satisfaction: 88.89% 100-(100/(2810+351)*351) for 3,161 users
  • React satisfaction: 87.49% 100-(100/(15071+2154)*2154) for 17,225 users
  • Vue satisfaction: 85.15% 100-(100/(9029+1574)*1574) for 10,603 users
  • LitElement satisfaction: 77.6%
  • AngularJS + Angular 2+ satisfaction: 41.60% 100-(100/(5046+7081)*7081) for 12,127 users

2019 (december 2019, 21,717 respondents): https://2019.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/

  • React satisfaction: 89.33% 100-(100/(14382+1717)*1717) for 16,099 users
  • Svelte satisfaction: 87.63% 100-(100/(1368+193)*193) for 1,561 users
  • Vue satisfaction: 87.14% 100-(100/(8122+1198)*1198) for 9,320 users
  • AngularJS + Angular 2+ satisfaction: 37.95% 100-(100/(4396+7186)*7186) for 11,582 users

2018 (november 2018, 20,268 developers): https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/overview/

  • Vue satisfaction: 91.15% 100-(100/(5810+564)*564) for 6,374 users
  • React satisfaction: 90.60% 100-(100/(13062+1355)*1355) for 14,417 users
  • AngularJS + Angular 2+ satisfaction: 41.37% 100-(100/(4817+6826)*6826) for 11,643 users

JetBrains survey

2023 (20 november 2023, 26,348 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/javascript/

  • React: 57%
  • Vue: 32%
  • Angular: 20%
  • React Native: 12%
  • Svelte: 7%

2022 (17 january 2023, 29,269 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/javascript/

  • React: 55%
  • Vue: 35%
  • Angular 2+: 17%
  • React Native: 12%
  • AngularJS: 7%
  • Svelte: 5%

2021 (16 july 2021, 31,743 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/javascript/

  • React: 49% regularly use
  • Vue: 43% regularly use
  • Angular 2+: 18% regularly use
  • React Native: 14% regularly use
  • AngularJS: 9% regularly use
  • Svelte: 3% regularly use

2020 (11 june 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
  • React Native: 21% regularly use
  • AngularJS: 11% regularly use
  • Svelte: 2% regularly use

2019 (11 june 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
  • React Native: 20% regularly use
  • AngularJS: 14% regularly use

2018 (7 june 2018, 6,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/javascript/

  • React: 60% regularly use
  • Vue: 33% regularly use
  • React Native: 25% regularly use
  • AngularJS: 21% regularly use
  • Angular 2+: 20% regularly use

2017 (12 july, 2017, 5,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2017/javascript/

  • React: 49% regularly use
  • AngularJS: 44% regularly use
  • Angular 2+: 22% regularly use
  • React Native: 18% regularly use
  • Vue: 20% regularly use

Jamstack Community Survey

2022 (2022/11/07, 6,544 responses): https://jamstack.org/survey/2022/#frameworks-by-usage-and-satisfaction

  • Popularity: React 71%, Vue 33%, Angular 2+ 20%, Svelte 19%, Angular.js 14%, SolidJS 6%
  • Satisfaction: Svelte 5.3, Vue 3.1, React 2.9, Angular 2+ 0.7, Angular.js 0.3, SolidJS 2.0

GitHub repositories that depend on

github-repositories

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing

NPM downloads

https://npmtrends.com/@angular/core-vs-lit-vs-react-vs-solid-js-vs-svelte-vs-vue

npmtrends.com

NPM packages depending on

npmjs.com

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing

Twitter followers

twitter-followers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing

Reddit subscribers

https://frontpagemetrics.com/r/reactjs#compare=vuejs+angular2

redditmetrics.com

Hacker News Hiring Trends

https://www.hntrends.com/2023/may-remote-jobs-drop-lowest-levels-post-covid.html?compare=React&compare=Vue&compare=Angular+2&compare=AngularJS

hntrends.com

Indeed

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing

Google trends

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=733&date=today%205-y&q=React,Vue,Angular,Svelte,Lit https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=31&date=today%205-y&q=React%20javascript,Vue%20javascript,Angular%20javascript,Svelte%20javascript,Lit%20javascript

trends.google.com

YouTube

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&gprop=youtube&q=React%20javascript,Vue%20javascript,Angular%20javascript,Svelte%20javascript,Lit%20javascript

GitHub stars

https://star-history.com/#facebook/react&vuejs/vue&vuejs/core&angular/angular&sveltejs/svelte&solidjs/solid&lit/lit

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SimilarTech: market share & web usage statistics

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing

BuiltWith Technology Lookup

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing

 

If someone has other charts, please share.

 

Some dates

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Lindy effect

The longer a technology has survived, it is also likely to have a longer remaining life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

@Tumurkhuyag
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Great info

@yann510
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yann510 commented Oct 15, 2020

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

@slugmandrew
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This is absolutely fantastic

@Yennutiebat
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Great work!
I also use discord, gitter and dev.to in my charts maybe you'd like to add them as well

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@Yennutiebat if you have more relevant charts you are more than welcome to share them!

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acoss22 commented Jun 2, 2021

Very good job! This was useful to make a presentation at my job as well! Thanks!

@omairahmed63
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Amazing job...

@imjul1an
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imjul1an commented Sep 9, 2021

love it, thx.

@MahimaKukreja
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Such an amazing article with detailed stats. One more stats for developers to consider is hiring trends.

Naukri Insights data shows that while React is more in Demand in internet companies (product start ups, unicorn), Angular is still the preferred framework for IT service companies.

Hiring trend in Indian IT service industry in 2021
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Hiring trend in Indian internet industry in 2021
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https://insights.naukri.com/career-tools/skills-trends/demand-for-angular-vs-react?&industry=_dd25
https://insights.naukri.com/career-tools/skills-trends/demand-for-angular-vs-react?&industry=_dd63

@abdussamad123
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Great Information

@onurusluca
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Beautiful, thank you!

@bilolman
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bilolman commented Jan 3, 2022

Seems like the author of the article prefers react to other frameworks

@marismar
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Wow! That's amazing!

@manjurulcis
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These are certainly great information. Recently our team wrote a general blog with angular vs react and I am going to include the information from this gist blog as per more latest info soon. Very nice writing.

@myknbani
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Seems like the author of the article prefers react to other frameworks

gist seems very objective, it has tons of sources

@Kaburu12
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awesome

@europia
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europia commented Jul 20, 2022

awesome

@eyesofkids
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awesome

@marismar
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marismar commented Aug 5, 2022

awesome

@ferdinandmukodo
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numbers don't lie

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ghost commented Nov 6, 2022

Cool, awesome!

Btw, I hope all the graphs would be interactive rather than static images.

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cravsky commented May 17, 2023

Thank you @tkrotoff this is amazing!

@timothy-okoduwa
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this is good statistics @tkrotoff thank you for sharing

@samzuercher
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cool, thx

@md-mursalin
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Really good

@IntelMin
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Really helpful information

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MaxiCom commented Dec 6, 2023

Thanks a lot! Super useful to choose a first Front-End JS Framework to use!

@GVOnGitHub
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Much appreciated, thank you for your work.

@joaofranciscoguarda
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Wait to see Solid explode. In a year it more than tripled the size, 77k to 362k (today 27-06-24). For those who dont unsderstand why react was made that shit, tryout SolidJs. Way more enjoyable to code

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