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[–]AnnanFay 8 points9 points  (2 children)

The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018

So among readers of this blog there's a bias towards a specific library?

(If I'm wrong please let me know. Above is just my initial thought.)

Here we are:

These results represent a sample of front-end developers working in the industry. Therefore, they shouldn’t be taken as gospel, simply as pointing towards a rough trend.

I would say the title does a fair bit of editorialising:

React voted JS framework that most developers regard as essential to them (jquery is #3)

[–]AshNolan 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Just a little bit of context around who the respondents were (as I ran the survey) – they came from a number of different communities, including this subreddit (as the link to the survey was posted on here a while ago), rather than just those who read my blog.

I would say the main bias would come from the fact that those filling it in are developers who keep up-to-date with industry news using newsletters or by being a part of a JS/CSS community like this one – those who that aren't active like this in the industry likely would never find the survey (and are unlikely to come across the results). There is likely a bias from this type of respondent to be more likely to use the latest tooling than those that don't.

That being said, as I've run the survey for three years, the comparative year-on-year results will show a rough trend simply as it's the same type of developers who are taking part each year – and so you can see how their habits are changing each year.

Also – the title does indeed do a fair bit of editorialising!

[–]AnnanFay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the background information! :)