[melling]

How popular is React?

I haven’t done much web development in several years myself.

Typescript is mentioned a lot on HN. Saw ReasonML mentioned recently. Vue.js has a movie on the way.

As far as Web frameworks go, what’s popular seems to change every couple years.

[gen220]

I think the reason React isn’t mentioned that much is because of how de facto its dominance has become.

The smaller-community frameworks are mostly interesting because they’re not React (i.e. they purposefully target different scopes, niches). The de facto standard framework for component-oriented front end development has been React for a while now. Typescript (which you see mentioned) complements react, it isn’t a component framework that aims to replace it.

[snazz]

React hasn’t lost any significant steam. You’re far more likely to get a job at a non-tech-centric company doing React today than you were.