Abstract

When it comes to starting a project there’s always a question in our heads… What framework to use? In this document three different frameworks have been selected thanks to their characteristics and popularity. It must be said that any of them can bring success to the project.

Justification

Angular, React and VueJS have been selected since they have a high popularity index, fanbase, tools and support that differentiate them from the rest of front end development frameworks.By using Google Trends we can see a popularity index headed by Angular, followed in second place by React and VueJS at the third place at the beginning of 2021.

Following the search for popularity and market share, Stack overflow obtained the following statistics through a survey of its subscribers:

Angular has a popularity rating of 51.7% among developers, React 66.9% while Vue has not earned a special place to take it into account.

But still, let’s look at a new graph (GitHub stars history) provided by GitHub in terms of the rating of the frameworks as for popularity among developers:

Explanation about each framework

React

A library created by Facebook for front end development oriented to the use of components for the creation of User Interfaces, this serves both the development of single page applications as well as for mobile development.

Advantages:

React offers a lightweight and easy component creation.
It’s a very popular library with a large number of followers and very used by startups.
In turn there is a large number of third-party extensions created by the community which offers an easy implementation of solutions.

Disadvantages:

When programming the template of a component JSX should be used, not native HTML, so it requires learning. JSX is a preprocessor that adds the XML syntax to Javascript, creating a combination of code and HTML to access, process and display the information in the view.
Thanks to its focus on the creation of user interfaces, third party extensions must be included to be able to generate suitable solutions and although these are many, its great availability can be tedious when choosing which one to use.