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Usage in numbers

Frameworks

The JavaScript Rising Stars report, which tracks the number of stars added on GitHub, listed Vue and React as the most popular JS frameworks in 2019, outpacing the other frameworks by a lot. However, GitHub stars aren’t the only way to understand JS frameworks. While they give a sense of the trend, other statistics suggest a fuller picture of these top frameworks.

top 5 frameworks by github stars
Results from Rising Starts report (2019)

Npm trends website tracks package download counts over time. The npm package download data comes from npm's download counts api and package details come from npms.io.

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Framework download over time

The results of State of JS are based on a survey filled by over 21 thousand of developers.

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Also check the awareness, interest, and satisfaction ratio rankings from State of JS website: https://2019.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/

Libraries

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JavaScript Library Usage Distribution in the Top 1 Million Sites

Technology Websites %
jQuery 835,548 83.55
Bootstrap.js 146,540 14.65
Moment JS 128,102 12.81
React 118,973 11.9
lodash 90,231 9.02
Vue 43,323 4.33
Yahoo User Interface 38,598 3.86
Backbone.js 23,548 2.35
Prototype 21,331 2.13
script.aculo.us 17,213 1.72
MooTools 16,505 1.65
Socket.IO 13,360 1.34

From: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/javascript-library

Question

Keeping up with JavaScript frameworks can be a challenge. There are a lot of them, and seemingly another one every month.

How do you know which ones might be right for your project? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you get started?