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I’m surprised I didn’t see React mentioned anywhere in the article. I wonder where its growth curve is compared to angular. Though to be fair, a bunch of the angular2 growth is people moving from “AngularJS” so it doesn’t exactly represent angular growth as a whole.

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See npmcharts for real usage data: https://npmcharts.com/compare/react,angular,@angular/core,em...

This is interesting for sure. I wonder if the different build processes that react uses vs angular would skew this in one direction or another. I think npmcharts is just monitoring downloads.

Can you suggest how the build processes would skew it? For all 3 projects I believe the recommended build method involves a cli tool that installs each package once.

even if the built process is skewing the absolute number of downloads it wouldn't change the rate of change would it? So we can say that React is growing faster than Angular, even if we can't be sure which is bigger.

I was surprised not to see React on these charts as well. On the other side looking at StackOverflow Careers for the last 1.5 years (that's how far back my data goes) React had amazing growth vs flat Angular(ng + ng2) http://www.reallyhyped.com/?keywords=vue.js%2Cangularjs%2Cre...

So it looks like Angular is more complex and has more questions asked and it is stagnating on the job market.

me to... from scanning current Front-end job market.. react seems to be right up there with Angular in terms of adoption, if not more...

React is definitely the "big new thing". Angular is nice if you're starting a new project and you don't want to have to think about setting up all the little details because it's a huge "all-in one" kind of platform, but React seems infinitely better if you're just trying to add a better front-end to an already existing stack or building your own stack a la carte.

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