Re:State of JavaScript 2020
by jakelazaroff on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:15PM
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If someone is making a static business informational page, it’s significantly more likely that they’re using WordPress and jQuery than e.g. React [1]. Like, significantly significantly — 20x more likely to be using jQuery (which is on a full 83% of all webpages) than React, and 30x more likely to be using WordPress than Gatsby or whatever.
People on HN talk about React and friends because they’re building client-side apps that deserve full frameworks. But it’s absolutely not representative of most web development.
Perhaps, I've only seen front end projects at FAANG and personal projects. That said, my front projects have at least an eslint config and usually a CI/CD deployment strategy if not full on tests.
The vast majority of front-end development outside of that world is misguidedly trying to mimic that complexity on their static business informational page they maintain with a duct taped mess of bad practices everywhere.
Now if you take a look at development outside of front-end and go to some large non-tech, mid-sized, or small business you'll probably also find poor practices (from my experience), but nothing like the mess I see in these same organizations trying front-end development now.