Before we look at the numbers, I’d like to note a few things about the data and how the frameworks are grouped. I recently published a large reference guide for JavaScript frameworks. The groupings — Big Three, Historically Significant and Notable — come from that guide.…
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This month we have a lot of high quality writing. And it covers a lot of ground — front end frameworks, Node.js, npm security, machine learning and more. We'll kick things off with a look at which projects have been the most popular over the past year...…
Over the past couple of weeks some really cool new libraries have come out. Two of them are from the insanely prolific Jason Miller, the author of Preact. The third is from Henrik Joretag, who created the Ampersand framework. We’ll kick it off with…
In my writing here on JavaScript Report, I try not to be a cheerleader. But every once in a while something comes along that gets me excited. Sapper is one of those things. It’s a new JavaScript framework built on top of the Svelte library. If you like fast…
Keeping up with JavaScript frameworks can be a challenge. There are a lot of them, and seemingly another one every month. How do you know which ones might be right for your project? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you get started? That’s where this guide comes in.…
It's fascinating to think about why one thing becomes more popular than another. Sometimes the reasons are clear, other times not so much. This is a particularly interesting question in the case of Angular and React. Angular, if we can refer to it as a single thing, used to be…
Currently there are three front end JavaScript frameworks that dominate the field — React, Vue and Angular. The vast majority of blog posts, tutorials and conference talks are about these three frameworks. This article, however, focuses on three lesser-known, but excellent alternatives. One thing that these frameworks have going for them…
Despite the holidays, December was a busy month with a lot of new articles and important releases. We’ll kick things off with a great new resource for JavaScript developers… I Just Asked 23,000 Developers What They Think of JavaScript. Here’s What I Learned This is a post…
Web performance is a big and complex topic. In this post we’ll narrow it down to a discussion of front end JavaScript frameworks and how using one versus another might impact the performance of your app. In particular, we’ll be looking at two things: (1) how long it…
Recently I published an article about the usage of top front end JavaScript frameworks. The two things that stood out were the dominance of React and the explosive growth of Vue. If current trends continue, it seems likely that by this time next year, Vue will have overtaken Angular as…