> 1.6 million weekly downloads for React vs. 200k weekly downloads for Vue. I don't think the GitHub stars measure much. People are downloading react at approximately 8 times the rate of vue.
If X is the number of times that a Github repo star button has been clicked, minus the times that it has been un-clicked, then as of today X_vuejs > X_reactjs.
I'd be curious of what other metrics Github stars correlates with (# of applications in production, $ in revenue/investment, etc.), but I suppose if Vue ends up replacing React in clear popularity that some will point to this as a significant moment in that history.
There are lots of micro libraries because there's zero barrier to putting something on github and NPM, and there's a huge population of people wanting to practice and demonstrate their programming skill.
Many of those are irrelevant. Guess what? Me throwing a "cool-cucumber.js" library doesn't obligate anyone to learn or keep up with it.
It's like a random author publishing a random book. Who cares? you don't have to read it.
The rest is much more stable. There's a bit of fluff on the surface but underneath is not changing that much.
People fear things outside their comfort zone, and resist understanding them.
My father is afraid of git. My sister in law is afraid of open source software. And, that fear is reflected in their career choices and the quality of their code.
Major upheaval? I think big dotcoms efforts to forcefully push their vapourwares onto the dev community in attempt to gain developers' "mindshare" reaching a point when that becomes genuinely obnoxious.
I was also surprised by that comment. I just checked and React still has on the order of less than 30 methods/properties in its entire public API surface. Vue.js has quite a bit more.
If the parent means by byte count, React + ReactDOM is about 32.5KB, Vue is 30.3KB. Not a dramatic difference in byte bloat, either.
Wait, what? A large ecosystem of libraries that are not included by default but are available for you to use is somehow a bad thing (as "bloat" implies)?
