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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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