If it's for yourself: Svelte. Amazing community, very likely to be here in 5 years, but I don't think it's been proven to work at large scales yet.
If you want to twist everything upside down and see the full potential of what front-end dev work could be: Qwik or Elm (imho)
> but I don't think it's been proven to work at large scales
i basically have this saved now:
notable companies now using svelte not just for internal apps but customer facing, critical stuff:
- huggingface (for everything, including gradio)
- alaska airlines (entire customer flow)
- razorpay (payment dialogs)
- schneider electric (many things)
- ikea (entire ecomm experience)
- riot games (league of legends client)
- Brave (search page)
- Square (developer portal)
- several YC startups
- and basically every notable data journalism outlet on the planet (Bloomberg, the Economist, Reuters, Les Echos, german and japanese publications, pudding.cool, and of course the NYT)
Edit: and yeah you're right about Elm. Probably not a good choice for first timers. But it's a great example of what a FE that adheres to functional programming philosophies could look like. Given React's recent developments I think the skills gained from trying it out would definitely carry over to React and other emerging frameworks. Although it's famously stable and error-free, it's not been battle tested for very large and complex apps so it's likely only a good choice for sideprojects atm.
By pretty much every metric,[^0] svelte is a tiny community still. A darling of the web dev community for sure, but has not yet gained the confidence of commercial products. Perhaps this has actually been good for Svelte and its development. It definitely seems like it's heading towards much wider adoption so I guess we'll see it tested soon enough
[^0]: https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d231...
In 2019: React.js 31.3%, Angular/Angular.js 30.7%, Vue.js 15.2%
I'm sure those number skew towards a certain kind of dev. Hopefully this gives you a better idea of how skewed it is. Also note: it's an online survey. Devs of niche frameworks can and often do encourage people to rate their framework higher
many pages and lots of functionality with lots of data floating around like Reddit, Twitter
literally everything/anything like Facebook, GitHub, etc
For simple apps, I'd go with a PWA if possible. For single, mostly informational, pages you usually just need a static site. For a company blog, some of these tools could be used to make the frontend for a CMS, but you can also just get away with Wordpress, Squarespace, etc most of the time unless they want some really custom functionality. Then there's also micro-frontends and Astro and other related tools if you're trying to do a lot of different things and wanna mix and match different solutions to different problems
It's got some cool db/sql stuff in there