{"id":1974,"date":"2015-04-03T00:21:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T05:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2015-04-03T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:03:08","slug":"react-and-polymer-arising-among-javascript-mv-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2015\/04\/03\/react-and-polymer-arising-among-javascript-mv-frameworks\/","title":{"rendered":"React and Polymer arising among JavaScript MV* frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back<\/a>, I started looking into JavaScript MV* frameworks. My colleague James often says we could have full-time work only making recommendations for the correct JS framework for a given week.<\/p>\n

While I don’t have the time remaining at RedMonk to do a truly in-depth analysis, I did want to post a quick hit with some stats and conclusions.<\/p>\n

This analysis began by pulling a list of frameworks from the excellent TodoMVC<\/a>, because as we all know, if it doesn’t work well for a todo list, it clearly can’t handle a larger app <\/sarcasm>. But I had to start somewhere, so start I did.<\/p>\n

I first took a look at Stack Overflow and plotted tags referencing any of these frameworks over time (click to embiggen\/focus):<\/p>\n

\"stack_overflow_mvc\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was frankly shocked by the overwhelming dominance of Angular.js. Although it’s well-known that Angular is quite popular, this is nearly absurd. It’s so popular that it’s impossible to even see trends in the other frameworks.<\/p>\n

So I next removed Angular from the comparison and plotted everything again (click to embiggen\/focus):<\/p>\n

\"stack_overflow_mvc_no_angular\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This produced some more broadly useful results. Frameworks tended to segment into a couple of main tiers, with few exceptions.<\/p>\n

Tier 0<\/strong><\/p>\n