State of JavaScript: TypeScript rises, AngularJs falls

While ECMAScript 6 remains the standard for JavaScript programming, TypeScript, Microsoft’s typed superset of JavaScript, might one day give ECMAScript 6 a run for its money, a newly released report suggests. The December 12 report, titled “The State of JavaScript 2017,” also finds increasing interest in Vue.js and GraphQL and waning interest in Google’s Angular.

“The State of JavaScript 2017” compiles the results of a survey of more than 28 thousand developers about their use of JavaScript technologies. The most popular flavor or variant of JavaScript proved to be ECMAScript 6, based on the number of developers who said they “have used it before and would use it again.”

JavaScript flavor Number of developers who would use it again
1. ECMAScript 6 (ES6) 20,596
2. Plain JavaScript (ES5) 12,637
3. TypeScript 7,968
4. Flow 2,389

Although ES6, also known as ECMAScript 2015, remains the standard, TypeScript is quickly becoming the leader in the typed JavaScript space, the report indicates. Another 8,796 respondents said they had heard of TypeScript and would like to learn it.

Front-end JavaScript frameworks: React leads, Vue.js rises, Angular slips

In the front-end frameworks space, Facebook’s React UI library led the pack with 13,669 developers saying they had used it and would do so again. The runner up was “none,” with 9,493 developers saying they did not use any front-end framework. 

An additional 12,175 developers reported they wanted to learn Vue.js, followed by 6,072 developers interested in learning Angular 2. But in a bad omen for Google’s front-end framework, 9,615 developers reported they had used Angular 1 and would not use it again while 10,657 developers had heard of Angular 2 and were not interested in using it. For Ember, 15,021 respondents had heard of it but were uninterested; 12,654 respondents felt this way about Backbone.

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