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Comment by KaoruAoiShiho | Hacker News Reader

Using NPM stats is just not correct. I believe React to be about 2.5x larger than Vue rather than 6x.

React looks a lot more popular than that comparing title:react vs title:vue on indeed.com or stackoverflow.com/jobs. Though I don't see the point -- they're exploring almost the exact same concepts.

As for what's next, I have a hard time envisioning anything usurping React any time soon. Its breed is basically the state of the art in UI paradigm and an active field of research. I'd put things like Elm in that cohort as well.

I think the better question is: what's next for React and its cohort?

When are we going to see these ideas appear first-class in Cocoa/UIKit/etc? When will we finally see "OOP is good for UIs" (OOP's final foothold in our dogma) lose out to "FP is good for UIs"? What's the next big thing inside the React ecosystem? How far can something mainstream like React move towards the strictness of something like Elm?

And why would that not be correct, and what are the sources of your number?

Most probably because Vue is enormously popular in China and npm mirrors are mostly used in china.

Vue can also be used from a CDN and doesn't require NPM.

React can be used from a CDN as well, including using it with JSX. Although using JSX from CDN scripts is a bad idea in production because it's slower.

https://npm.taobao.org/package/vue https://npm.taobao.org/package/react

Vue looks like it's about 1.8x more popular in China.

Builds bias npm stats. You can also look at github activity and stackoverflow activity as proxies.

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