Why the hell is ReactJS is so popular?

Javascript landscape shits out frameworks like it’s nobody’s business. Svelte team recently came with SvelteKit. There are tools like Stencil. But, ReactJS only seems to be booming. In 2020, the React npm module had 4 times the number of installs as Vue.js, the second most common JavaScript framework. In 2020, front-end web development with React was a common theme, and it will continue to be so in 2021. What explains ReactJS’ popularity?

React owes its initial momentum to this comparison. A few cool kids seemed to have taken a liking to ReactJS’s way of doing things. ReactJS felt like functional JavaScript , it had borrowed functional programming concepts and functional programming was also gaining popularity at that time. A lot of people found React’s way of using a single direction flow of data instead of Angular’s two-way binding to be a much more sane way to reason about the state management. As a result of its popularity, a slew of libraries, tools, and ready-to-use components have emerged. After a while, React became the go-to library for creating user interfaces. After that, it really just snowballed from there, bringing us to our second point “Pool of available talent”.