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State of ReactJS in 2023?

Ashutosh Kumar on January 04, 2023

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It was developed by Facebook, and is often used for building single-page applications a...
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Rense Bakker

The loved/hated thing as Jordan Lamoreaux already pointed out is generally higher for frameworks that have more users. Especially as adoption rates of a particular framework grow and more people feel forced by their organisation to work in said framework, the hated number goes up. So we should really look at the hated statistic as a function of adoption rate. If a framework has low adoption but high number of haters, its not good.

The 3 points you mention about the future of React are spot on I think. Its not going anywhere anytime soon! That said, I do like to keep an eye on the development of other frameworks, just in case something pops up that has all the strengths of React and none of the weaknesses... Solid.js maybe?

Side-note: when I quick read your name I saw: Ashton Kutcher xD

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Ashutosh Kumar

Yeah and I couldn't agree more, that yes more hate can also depict more adoption, I was merely pointing out that the people are dreading react, which means it is not perfect, it is not The framework yet.

I am looking forward to see what all these other stakeholders are ready to do in the framework Competition.

and yeah lol Ashton Kutcher ? I wish I was as good looking as him.

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Rense Bakker

Indeed. The framework world (as well as the js world as a whole) is definitely moving at the moment. Exciting times are ahead, I'm currently mostly looking at solid.js and where it goes, but I think it's to soon to really switch to a different framework atm.

Perhaps you can market yourself as the less good-looking, but more tech-savvy version of Ashton Kutcher 😁

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Ashutosh Kumar

YEAH!! Fingers cross to see if we are moving towards perfection!!..

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Jaxongir

Excellent point man

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Jordan Lamoreaux • Edited

Clearly Next.js, Deno, Svelte, etc. surpassed React.js as the most loved language

Just to point out:

  1. (nit) Frameworks, not languages 🤷‍♂️
  2. The number of users is likely much lower for each of those than the number of users for React.

Not that the argument is incorrect, but perhaps just incomplete.

It will be interesting to see what happens to hot frameworks like Svelte if they catch on and become more commonly used. I imagine the “dread“ percentage would increase as well.

Edited to add: I really enjoy the article. Thanks for the write up.

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Ashutosh Kumar

Oh Yeah! thanks for pointing out.
Hahaha Yeah, we as a developer hate and love the things we use at the same time. Lol.

Hoping to see them bringing what react is able to bring on the table for us.

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Jagroop Singh

Now NextJS with React is taking place of React.

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Ashutosh Kumar

That's sure a thing that's happening a lot in community!

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Ankur

It's amazing! Great efforts 👏

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Ashutosh Kumar

Thanks :)

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Anshika Gupta

Good job!

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Ashutosh Kumar

It's a start :)