On January 9, NPM (Node Package Manager) has released a report on the state of JavaScript frameworks in 2017. “The JavaScript community is growing at a rate unprecedented in the history of programming languages, and the npm registry is growing right along with it,” said Laurie Voss, npm co-founder and COO. “As the central hub where developers distribute and discover JavaScript code, we’re able to see trends in the applications developers write and the tools they use.”
The report is evaluated by analysing different trends from November 2016 to November 2017. According to the report, React is the most leading JavaScript framework pack for web development. It has gained massive adoption in Desktop application, web, and mobile development. React usage has grown 500% more compared to all the other npm registry downloads. Preact, a smaller and faster alternative for React has also seen a growth of 145 percent.
Angular is not expected to grow much, though it is gaining more popularity. Only 0.008% of downloads were recorded for Angular from the npm registry. “A package with this growth curve might not ordinarily seem a good choice for a new project, but Google’s enormous resources and continued backing mean it can be depended upon to stick around,” according to the report.
Though Vue is not that popular as Angular and Ember, the report stated that it is expected to grow much faster than any other tool in popularity. Eventually, the report demonstrates that Webpack is the most effective way to develop web applications. It is used to develop React code and transforms the JavaScript into code which can be availed by the browser. Since the usage of Webpack has grown faster than React in 2017, the company strongly believes that developers are using Webpack now to develop other apps too.
Source: NPM Official Blog
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