Development Trends: Angular & ReactJS
Even if you work following your clients' requirements there are always technology trends that give you a hint of what you do need to learn to keep you actualized as a development specialist or take the next step in your career.
As technical recruiters, we do notice that change in the "development trends", mostly because of the client's requirements and the demands of our candidates or collaborators in terms of career path and training.
According to the results in StackOverflow’s 2018 survey, JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language, so, when it comes to JS technologies, they will often be in the spotlight.
Angular framework, since the first version was launched, became a must-have in the development stack, mostly for front-end and full-stack positions, and nowadays, ReactJS is taking strength as one of the essentials (believe me, there are more clients asking for devs with this skills more and more frequently).
Despite AngularJS has been criticized because of its incompatibility with its successors, Angular 2, Angular 4 and now, Angular 5, and its popularity seems to be decreasing, it still has a bigger amount of users compared to ReactJS (Angular scored a 36.9% of users versus a 27.8% of ReactJS's on the 2018's survey).
ReactJS, on the other side, is not a framework but a library -with all that implies for devs- and is supposed to make considerably faster the creation of user interfaces, and is more flexible as well -so these are probably some of the reasons of its increasing popularity.
❓ Do you think ReactJS can take Angular’s crown as one of the most popular front-end libraries/frameworks in the near future? Have you used them both?
❓ What do you think about VueJS? Will it take a starring role in the game?
💡 If you want to know more about StackOverflow's 2018 survey follow this link: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
Maricruz, thanks for sharing!
Good article
Angular is great if used wisely. It is very easy to watch a few tutorials and get started with it, but if a single principle is applied incorrectly it can result in a slow/buggy application which is also hard to maintain. Every company should have a defined path for straightening up code principles and standards in order to make sure every new employee does what the others do. This is usually dealt with by setting up a learning center which is filled by senior resources, or with reoccurring trainings. Nice article by the way!