For those who don't know 😂
React is a JavaScript library for creating user interfaces.
React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries in the world, but it saw a dip in downloads this week. Could be a number of factors. Also, it might be something going on with npm.js as well. Who knows 🤯🤯??
Check for yourself: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react
Or maybe all the people are cooking something tasty bun, that they forgot to react? 😂
Here's an image to enjoy 👇
Top comments (33)
🖖I come in peace🖖🤣
My guess is it's an incident with NPM's count like the one in 2018 but haven't seen a press release yet so your guess is as good as mine.
What do you think @srbhr?
I was tempted to make a full pun intended, I held back to maintain peace 🤣
Go on, we love your puns @pizofreude
Ahahaha, it was a bit too dark for public space in DevTo. I'll do one better next time with more user friendly on public space :)
+1
@angular/core(for instance) :LOL, As an angular developer myself. I won't be surprised to see this dip. 😂😂
I think it's
lol number one hit me differently cos i usually check out currency and stock charts lol...When you said :"its either a buy lol"
hahahahaha
Maybe this what you are saying or something different is going on. 😂
Let's wait few weeks to see what the data looks like.
The bad thing is that npm does not normalize the graph once the "bug is fixed" then you face this odd bumps (up or down) like Vue on Dec 11, 2022 😅
npmtrends.com/react-vs-vue
Data dramas happen, I'd expect them to discard the wrong stuff and draw a straight line between the consistent data points if that's about giving market share representative data. It's not though, it just represents -allegedly- the amount of downloads from their servers for specific packages, hence it's not agnostic to botting and mirroring plus there's few reasons for them to normalise data output.
Yupp, let's wait and watch. My take is that new frameworks have started to pull people away. And we'll see enterprise customers testing such stuff as well.
Yup, still it's a huge drop that can't be explained by that IMHO.
React is quite on the top of the leadership in terms of FE development and the future of it itself, high level of maturity and a great deal of people proficient using it.
Vercel also adds a ton of muscle with Next JS so... whoever is in the tribe of react haters hold your horses.
We'll eventually swap react for something else, but doing an objective analysis of the market this time it's not just yet 😂 we're honestly far from that.
On the other hand this doesn't explain the drop in Express.
First question I tried to answer is: does this drop correlates with an equivalent increase in alternatives?
Taking a quick look the answer is a big NO!
Checked Solid.js, Marko, Svelte, Angular, Astro, Next, Vue... and they all got a huge -percentile- drop. Also checked Fastify as a counterpart for Express and also got a drop.
If you ask me either npm has a bug on data gathering or some mirrors have been closed.
@joelbonetr Yes, I think so. But here's another comment made on reddit yesterday. This can be better bot protection. All of these bots are learning the codes and stuff. Comment
Also, what if those bots already have access to our DEV blogs ??
well, dev blogs are public so you sure can access them through any scrapping process for ingestion.
That being said I don't know what would be the result if you train a model on all npm libraries 😂 There are quite a few of them that are buggy as hell, bad structured, overengineered and so on and so forth, not to speak of the deprecated ones.
We can theorise but we might never know unless npm throw an official communicate
Codex was trained on GitHub. So, same situation there as well. 😂
That's relieving, isn't it? 😂😂
We get to keep our job ✨
Bun and Astro takes over. That's it.
Well, that's not the case. There's another post on DEV about how we never learned from Yarn, and that's the same case with BUN. I don't know, I haven't tried it yet. I'm an Angular guy.
it's like S&P 500 - there is a drop, but in the end it will be greater :)
Hmm . . 🤔. Everything looks good after a drop 😂
buy the bottom....I thought i was the only one who wanted to buy that like pronto...lol
Maybe they're giving Vue a try?
Vue is also down 😂😂
Same drop for Express.
Looks like the E & R from MERN stack is down. 😂😂
That's the way it seems :)
Maybe because all developer downloaded react and no one left 🤣
Dude, this is the most funniest reply!!
You don't know how hard I laughed.
This pest is everywhere. @sloan Pest Control please.
Strange, it seems to be some problem in the NPM servers because that kind of behavior is normal but for the months of December.
This isn't December though. 👀
Chinese National Day Holiday is coming...