Ben Halpern

Posted on Jan 22, 2018

Can you guess what the most popular search term on dev.to is so far this year?

#discuss

Please only make one guess per comment. Once I reply to you with yes or no, you can guess more. I'll ignore comments that don't follow that rule.

Let's see who guesses it. 😊

Edit: We have a winner:

🎉 LARAVEL 🎉

Top comments (104)

Jason C. McDonald • Jan 22 '18 • Edited

"Laravel -- The Return of PHP"

That's either a title for an epic-type heroic sequel or a horror movie, depending on how you feel about PHP.

Either way, IT'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK.

Beeblebrox • Jan 22 '18

I mean if this is coming back, oooook... ;))

Laravel, php - Worldwide, 2004 - present - g.co/trends/XaZtx

Valentin Silvestre • Jan 26 '18

Go Symfony...

Stidges • Jan 22 '18

Laravel

Ben Halpern • Jan 22 '18

We have a winner!

Beeblebrox • Jan 22 '18

barely heard about it... Guess this will put it even more apart from other terms :))

Laud B • Jan 23 '18

hmm, interesting, I do know a number of Laravel devs here in Ghana and in Nigeria as well.

Beeblebrox • Jan 22 '18

wonder how PHP is doing tho, cause google search trends are going down for it...

Arandi López • Jan 24 '18

Laravel has been gaining popularity in Mexico in the last two years. There are more and more devs, as Laravel is PHP dev well done

Corentin H. ⚡ • Jan 22 '18

I was just about to say it! Well done! 👏

Ben Halpern • Jan 22 '18 • Edited

Hint: Here is this technology's Google search trend over time.

I'd also say: This technology is not as universally popular as some others, but mainstream enough that a dedicated pocket could tilt the scales on our site. And I've definitely noticed a fair amount of users of this tech on dev.to.

Ben Halpern • Jan 22 '18

I'll also add that, while this tech is always top 15-20, its position at number 1 for this time period is kind of an outlier.

Ben Halpern • Jan 22 '18

Another hint: It's a web framework.

Ben Halpern • Jan 22 '18

Guesses are closer after this hint. I was surprised by this answer, though as I mentioned, it's always fairly popular.

Aaroh Mankad • Jan 22 '18

I think you searched the wrong thing haha.

laraval vs laravel (correct spelling)

Ben Halpern • Jan 22 '18

Whoops, spelled it wrong in the edit. It's spelled correctly in the analytics.

Dian Fay • Jan 22 '18

Awhile back I noticed their testing framework relies on composing data fixtures. It's a really cool idea I'm glad is getting some attention, I'd done it myself for some applications but hadn't seen it implemented in a framework yet.