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Front-end development is growing faster than back-end development; React leads the pack among web frameworks
4 January 2018 - OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)
npm, Inc., which runs the world’s largest software registry and maintains the npm software package management application, today published the first in a series of State of JavaScript industry reports, providing a comprehensive review of both front- and back-end tooling among JavaScript software developers and featuring predictions for development trends in 2018.
Of the 13 million JavaScript developers worldwide, 75 percent use the npm registry to download more than 600,000 packages of code over 12 billion times per month. This growth has occurred as npm has evolved from a registry primarily for server-side JavaScript to one used mostly by front-end developers.
npm, Inc. Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Laurie Voss, who authored the report, confirms web tooling is becoming the fastest growing category of JavaScript, a trend he expects to continue across all categories of software development.
“The JavaScript community is growing at a rate unprecedented in the history of programming languages, and the npm registry is growing right along with it,” said Voss. “As the central hub where developers distribute and discover JavaScript code, we’re able to see trends in the applications developers write and the tools they use.
“If you want to understand what packages are being used to power the next-generation of applications, from Google to Netflix to NASA spacesuits, the npm registry is the most accurate and telling indicator of which tools are on the rise. By analyzing trends in software developer tooling today, we’re uniquely capable of predicting the composition and capabilities of tomorrow’s applications.”
Download counts of nearly all packages in the registry continue to grow, but package popularity is determined by calculating download counts as a percentage of all registry downloads. From November 2016 to November 2017, findings show:
Source: npm, Inc.
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