JavaScript: who, what, where, why and next
summary
npm-backed data shows JavaScript has about 11 million developers, 33,000 developers responded to the 2019 survey, and npm performs 335 million audits in 30 days. Browser work is 97% of activity, 77% do server work and 46% write native apps. React claims massive share — react 63% of developers use it — while TypeScript 63% adoption surges and WebAssembly is small but widely considered.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Start
- 7:13npm: the biggest software
- 7:51JavaScript: biggest on Stack Overflow
- 8:38JavaScript developers are getting more experienced with npm
- 10:24We care about security more
- 11:5829% of JavaScript developers can't use certain licenses
- 13:5625% of JavaScript devs don't consider it their primary language
- 14:23Other primary languages for JavaScript devs
- 15:1497% of JavaScript developers write code for browsers
- 15:39Desktop web vs. mobile web
- 16:48Native apps
- 17:40Native mobile frameworks
- 18:15Deploy targets
- 19:24The registry always grows
- 19:58Everything in the registry grows
- 20:28Share of Registry
- 21:4763% of JavaScript developers use React
- 24:3127% of JavaScript devs use Vue
- 27:26Express still dominates
- 27:508% of JavaScript devs use Gatsby
- 28:289% of JavaScript devs use Next.js
- 28:565% of JavaScript devs use Nuxt
- 29:51GraphQL: get on board
- 30:2563% of JavaScript devs use TypeScript
- 31:1436% of JavaScript devs write TypeScript some or most of the time
- 31:41The @types scope
- 33:21WebAssembly: early days
- 36:06The inescapable pull of JavaScript libraries
- 39:37React: the component model the web always wanted
- 40:23React hooks
- 42:26Is letting React take over a good idea?
