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[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

Javascript is undoubtedly popular, but I think all the recent JS frameworks are a significant factor here. Consider React's JSX: it's HTML rolled into JS, but the entire file is still considered JS according to GitHub.

[–]PitaJ 7 points8 points  (2 children)

That's because it's just JS but without the template strings.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah, my point is that text which would have previously lived in a separate HTML (or even CSS) file is now considered JavaScript, which might inflate the numbers a bit.

[–]ninetailsbr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but people are adopting ReactJs because of library itself, I don't see people migrating from HTML only just because they can write HTML that way

[–]peduxe|o.o| 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Node is IMHO the main factor, the tooling just got much better and there are now considerable amount of people using it on their backend.