"In the market share fight between React and Angular, React has won...."
All the data I've seen indicate that both Angulars, combined, account for twice as many production code bases as React. I wonder where you got the idea that "React has won"?
All the data I've seen indicate that both Angulars, combined, account for twice as many production code bases as React. I wonder where you got the idea that "React has won"?
"Won" usually means, "the thing that people most want to read or talk about at the moment".
And yes, this represents a steep drop-off in the number of jQuery-centric applications in the past couple of years.
Edit: I thought I had bookmarked the Web site where I saw these numbers, but I couldn't find it before running out the door this morning. Suffice it to say, the JS landscape is changing rapidly, and assumptions that were safe even 12 months ago are not valid today. jQuery is fading quite rapidly, and though it won't disappear any time soon, and, increasingly, it is no longer seen as a good choice for large apps with tons of business logic.
What I'm saying is not that jQuery is the end-all-be-all. It isn't, and trying to build a highly dynamic web application with tons of client-side logic around jQuery is indeed a recipe for spaghetti.
What I AM saying is that most web applications (especially in the enterprise business world), simply AREN'T all that dynamic. They are primarily driven by full page loads rather than AJAX, and server-side logic rather than client-side code.
On HN, the terms "web application" and "SPA" are practically synonymous. But outside of a few social media titans, and the startup community, that's hardly true.
Life has gotten toughter since then