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    Findings: React is by far the most popular front-end framework/library (and continues to grow faster). 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.
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Stack Overflow trends
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=reactjs%2Cvue.js%2Cangular%2Csvelte%2Cangularjs

Stack Overflow survey

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing
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
2021 (february 2022, 16,085 respondents): https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-frameworks/

Svelte satisfaction: 89.40% 100-(100/(2431+288)*288) for 2,719 users
React satisfaction: 83.65% 100-(100/(9081+1774)*1774) for 10,855 users
Vue satisfaction: 79.91% 100-(100/(5590+1405)*1405) for 6,995 users
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
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
2021 (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
AngularJS: 9% regularly use
Svelte: 3% regularly use

2020 (january 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
Svelte: 2% regularly use

2019 (january 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 (january 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 (december 2016, 5,000 developers): https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2017/javascript/

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

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

NPM packages depending on

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing
GitHub repositories that depend on

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing
Reddit metrics
https://frontpagemetrics.com/r/reactjs#compare=vuejs+angular2

Twitter

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kODyUrTPWvz5n0fpUovRdxfXsSikVHz6T3h9Kspuk8g/edit?usp=sharing
Hacker News Hiring Trends
https://www.hntrends.com/2022/may.html?compare=React&compare=Vue&compare=Angular+2&compare=AngularJS

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

YouTube
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&gprop=youtube&q=React%20javascript,Vue%20javascript,Angular%20javascript
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
GitHub stars
https://star-history.com/#facebook/react&vuejs/vue&angular/angular&sveltejs/svelte&solidjs/solid

 
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 https://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

Svelte

Initial release: 2016/11/26 https://svelte.dev/blog/frameworks-without-the-framework
GitHub repository creation: 2016/11/20

Solid

Initial release: 2021/06/28 https://dev.to/ryansolid/solidjs-official-release-the-long-road-to-1-0-4ldd
GitHub repository creation: 2018/04/24

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