The Shocking State of JavaScript // The Code Report

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🔖 Topics Covered

- State of JS survey Results 2021
- React vs Vue vs Angular
- Is Gulp dead?
- Is Gatsby dead?
- New features in the JS language

[megaraph]

New rivalry in the Javascript world, not referring to frameworks but Jeff vs Ben

[AnindoSarker]

Damn I love these code report episodes. There aren't many people covering what the web dev community thinks. Keep it up

[amirhoseinhesami]

Biggest Coding Report Ever, Keep Going Jeff😍

[DK-oxze]

As a front-end developer, I always feel overwhelmed with constant changes in the framework and tooling landscape. Sometimes I feel I would have accomplished much more in all these years if I was into backend development or ML/AI.

[CsabaTodor]

Ben Awad's comment on React vs. Angular makes sense, a Maserati is a sports car that does not have any other use cases other than showing off and costs a lot to maintain. A garbage truck, on the other hand, is useful for our community, and probably worth more than a Maserati. 😂😂😂😂

[UselessDuckCompany]

Maybe this will be the year of svelte. I actually feel like a sane person when using it.

[TheSpurious]

"It was never meant to do that." Javascript in a nutshell.

I've never learned javascript because there's way too much fotm hopping. Every time I look into giving it a shot for a project the tools and frameworks are completely different from the last time I checked.

[zbik]

I've been in the Svelte ecosystem since v3 and the sapper days, really glad for the recognition SvelteKit is receiving.
Also worth noting: Svelte Kit uses Vite under the hood :)
and also worth noting: Tauri + Svelte is a godsend for creating cross-platform desktop apps, that are lightweight and faaaast.

[dongums]

I'm really happy for Sveltekit's recognition

[coldcircuit]

I work with react but i still love to use Angular in personal projects <3, Vue 3 is still on my todo list for some time, meybe this year i will try it out.

[rednuttyguy]

As a primarily vuejs developer, the composition api and it's more granular control makes it so much better. It allows you to control reactivity outside of template files and better architecture front end apps. If anything my satisfaction has greatly increased after actually learning how to use the new features properly.

[netd]

As a long term ionic user I think this data really represents how much happier i am with it right now. Even though nowadays we have better options like flutter, I don't feel the need to migrate away from ionic since it's always improving at a fast rate. It used to be known for 16mB base css payload. Today it's lighter than bootstrap to the point it's usable on webapps without performance problems. They even went as far as writing a complete replacement to cordova, capacitor.

[ElectericSpace]

The amount of unique formats this one channel has come up with is crazy

[thatsjustluvly]

Satisfaction is one thing sure, but how much these frameworks are being used by companies is more important, and life is honestly too short to constantly learn new frameworks you will likely not use professionally, never heard of anyone using svelte for example. Unless you’re a freelancer then you can pretty much do whatever you like

[exortions]

You are seriously spitting out videos like crazy, good job!
Please make more code report videos, they're so interesting :)

[rubennijhuis]

I heavily use gatsby and havent had any problems so far, yes it can get a little slow when using projects with a huge amount of pages but often you know your site will have a lot of pages beforehand. I feel like a lot of people don't know what Gatsby is actually useful for and just see it as a general purpose tool. For many small websites that want good seo and nice builtin data aggregation (contentful etc) its perfect.

I have been looking at Nextjs and don't see why I should switch, I am open for comments tho. Would love to hear what you guys use it for!

[brendenferguson]

Really enjoying building with sveltekit and tauri; glad to see them get some attention.

[leac]

I am getting tired of the frontend world since 4 years ago and am thinking to return to backend at the end of this year. Even Node sounds great instead of keeping the pace of every new Javascript toy invented for frontend every 6 months.

[InternetKilledTV]

Vue 3 definitely had a learning curve. Getting up to speed though, fragments and portals are huge and wrapping stuff as composables if nothing else means I copy paste less code. It's similar enough to v2 that I could limp my way through the swamp, but it's growing on me. Tangentially, don't ask me to upgrade an existing Vue 2 app.

[naveenbollepalli]

I have tried vite once, after seeing it in fireship. Later faced a issue with build, then couldn't continue because of trust issues 😁. Didn't knew at all about the stateofJS site till now, will checkout about it. Thanks Jeff.