The only thing I'm not as familiar with is react, I've spent most of my time learning Angular 2 lately. And as I've mentioned, I haven't ran into a lot of people looking for these more modern skills. Is there more companies looking for react than Angular?
I was surprised not to see React on these charts as well.
On the other side looking at StackOverflow Careers for the last 1.5 years (that's how far back my data goes) React had amazing growth vs flat Angular(ng + ng2)
http://www.reallyhyped.com/?keywords=vue.js%2Cangularjs%2Cre...
So it looks like Angular is more complex and has more questions asked and it is stagnating on the job market.
Angular is actually thriving in enterprise. There are many Angular projects in software houses which do backend in Java and Dot Net. There is a lot of demand for Angular developers in India at least.
The US scene seems to favour React though. Even though React is there from 2014, the way we code React now is much different that how it was done 5 years ago. Also in React fads keep coming and going in the library ecosystem. In contrast Angular hasn't changed much from the developer's perspective.
Do you say that as assuming react is currently the biggest and widest adopted framework? Angular still seems to be more popular in corporations (at least in the UK) although I'd prefer react generally. I guess that might be because angular is more batteries included.
There are still a lot of companies using Angular and Vue. Especially some big institutions that started using AngularJS (pre-"Angular") years before React was really popular.
React has staying power this time, thank God. It's almost 8 years old and popularity is still increasing. Angular is dead to me though, which means big rewrites coming for me in the next few years...
From outside the window, years ago it looked like React was eating the “market share”, I still see react in many tutorials and mentioned in Job postings very frequently so I thought Angular was being phased out and only used in legacy apps.
From both my experience in enterprise software and recent JavaScript conferences I can say that Angular 2 / 4 is still widely used for new projects in that area, much more so than React.
There are a few reasons for this. First, Angular’s programming model lends itself to typical enterprise software requirements. Secondly, Angular, and TypeScript in particular, is similar to what enterprise programmers are typically used to (namely Java and C#). There also is Ionic, which is largely based on Angular.
Finally, Angular and React is one of those odd cases of regional variation in technology distribution. React appears to be more popular in the US, particularly with Silicon Valley companies, than in Europe.
But Angular's even older than React is at this point. That said, React gained a lot of popularity while Angular was in the limbo of AngularJS to Angular 2; I think a lot of people switched up then.
I'm currently doing Angular again and I hate it (especially combined with NgRx, why do I need half a dozen observables, reducers, actions, selectors, etc just to make a HTTP request?), it's a step back from React in my last assignment; React's functional style with hooks and react-query was a great combo.
I'm not saying it's the best, but it worked for me. For my next trick, I should learn Vue.
Although on the other hand, front-end fatigue kicked in years ago. It's just the same thing again; some forms, validation, layout/style and a REST API, just using the tool-du-jour. Sigh.
Yeah. Around 2019 most companies I interviewed for started telling me they're rewriting their Angular projects to React. Before that there was a good number of Angular projects, but I'm seeing only React since then, occasionally some Angular maintenance when it's not worth it to rewrite (so you don't really want to work there usually).
Depends where you live and work I suppose. I used to work in a consultancy firm in Norway that was all in on Angular two-three years ago. Angular has been very popular in enterprise here. But Twitter and Reddit reach enterprise too in the end. The consultancy firm has now switched more or less entirely over to React because Angular is so out of vogue.
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