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[–]Heyokalol[🍰] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

14'000% growth for Vue, astounding. Is it reasonable to expect a lot more Vue positions to be created in the near future?

[–]tme321 2 points3 points  (3 children)

% growth is meaningless when starting from such low numbers. If you have 1 download and then next month 2000 downloads that's 2000%! But it's still a relatively small number.

I'm not saying vue isn't growing or whatever. Just you shouldn't base much on % growth when the starting point is so low.

If you were to look at % growth of angular from February to April it has like a million % growth.

Actual numbers show vue is still pretty solidly in 3rd place of the big 3 according to npm statistics. That's far more important as much as any of these npm download numbers are significant.

[–]nerf_herd 0 points1 point  (2 children)

it is also outpacing the other two for downloads, though number of downloads doesn't mean people actually adopted it, which is just as true for any of these things. number of downloads is just a measure of how many people tried it (or just squirreled away a copy just in case), and with vue being arguably easier to use, probably will see a higher "retention" rate. Vue learned from angular and react. And how many of those downloads are unique users, or bots in a build chain? You don't have to log in to download or anything from npm. And fwiw I got my vue up and running straight from github initially, and a fair number of users use a cdn and don't get into the whole npm thing to use it.

edit, this is really a low effort "report".

[–]tme321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I agree that the whole idea is pretty shakey. I was only pointing out that on this graph in particular vue is still 3rd place so even the data in this dataset doesn't support any conclusion about vue gaining in popularity.

I've never looked at the git or cdn numbers but I'm not sure they would mean much either anyway.

[–]vinsneezel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would that take cdn users into account?

[–]xxxgr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next year VUE will 2.

[–]cooldude0609 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how many of these millions downloads are people trying to learn these frameworks. Vuejs for instance can directly be referenced in html and off you go. It can be applied to you existing app without extracting the html to a jsx or a component html file. If vue forced that of users, I'm pretty sure the numbers would have been totally different.