GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away

Re:GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and An... by anonytrary on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:40PM (#17349679)

Maybe I was being hyperbolic, but it could refer to any or all of the following:

  1. The W3C standards convention
  2. Being a product of Facebook
  3. The old license being restrictive
  4. Too much hype around the framework

I'm positive I've seen people conjure these reasons before. I was deterred from React mainly for the third reason. When they fixed their license, I felt no need to pursue alternatives. I've played around with Vue a bit, and I just wasn't compelled enough to switch to it. It seemed like a solved problem already. The only thing that will get me to switch from React is a 2x in performance and/or a 10x reduction in complexity or size.

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Re:GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and An... by benatkin on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:55PM (#17350936)

Those are all very good reasons, especially #3. It's part of React's track record and you don't have to look far to see other similarities to it. It isn't a sign of being a responsive to their userbase because they waited until the inventor of the world's most popular website publishing platform complained about it.

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