This is more representative https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F012l1vxv,v...

I'm not sure I wholeheartedly agree with that. The YouTube channel "REACT" could be driving some of these numbers. There's a spike in early 2016 that made me think of it - remember the whole 'REACT' Trademark craze? The Stackoverflow Trends blog post [0] from yesterday is probably more representative.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/09/introducing-stack-over...

Try changing the timescale to 3 months or so for react, you get a nearly perfect pulse wave with peaks on weekdays and valleys on the weekends.

The same happens with Javascript, Java and I guess most (popular) programming languages; it might be an imperfect indicator, but one that suggests people are actively searching during their working hours (which I don't think applies to the youtube channel).

It's maybe not perfect, but definitely a lot better than 'Reactjs'. You just have to look at this topic - how many people just say React vs ReactJs. Besides Google seems to know that I'm wanting the JS framework so hopefully its filtering out some of the other unrelated 'React' stuff.

Absolutely. The line before 2014 represents the tiny baseline of people using "React" in other contexts. The entirety of the growth since then is the Javascript library.

I mean, if you're going that far: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F012l1vxv,v...

Oh look, `Vue` is contaminated by things like PS Vue, just like `react`.

Since your line for "Vue" shows no increase in usage after Vue.js came out, while the line for "React" does, I'm not sure this shows what you think it does.

Another perspective from Stack Overflow Trends: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=vue.js%2Creac...

Vuejs is very good, and I like it a lot more than React. However, it is difficult to see it ever becoming more popular than React, when the latter is evangelized by a large and well-known software company.

>is evangelized by a large and well-known software company

This company is the exact reason why I want Vue to succeed.

Why? I'm not an FB fan either, but your use of React does not benefit them in any way.

It indeed benefits them in a lot of ways otherwise it would not be open source (with an IP part).

I thought the same thing, but later learned that JQuery, built by an independent developer, ended up triumphing over Prototype.js, backed by a larger organization.

Yes. The react ecosystem has a massive communication advantage.

Also (as mentioned by others as well...) Should we be really talking about how Angular dominates? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=reactjs,vuejs,%2F...

That actually is pretty fascinating. Even with the fix from above, Angular has a pretty decent lead: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F012l1vxv,v...

Isn't it misleading to use 'ReactJs' in google trends ? You won't find 'ReactJs' on React's homepage, but 'React' whereas you'll find 'AngularJs' and 'VueJs' everywhere on their respective home.

How is Vue different from Angular 1? It looks and feels very similar. Granted, I haven't built very large applications but I'm using it in production and I don't really see the benefit while React has a completely different take.

Vue took inspiration from both React and Angular 1. Syntactically, yes, it's quite close to A1, but it makes use of a virtual DOM and components, as React does.