Chapter 10. The Future of Vue.js and Adoption Rates

Although a short chapter, this may be my favorite chapter to write out of this whole book. No technical jargon, no code, just looking ahead to the future; a bright future that is. Vue.js as been around since 2014 but it wasn’t until 2016 where it burst into the mainstream, earning developers’ attention. In 2017, Vue.js has earned more than 40k stars on GitHub in one year, making it the fastest growing project on GitHub.

During the summer of 2018, Vue.js surpassed React (previously the most starred framework on GitHub) in stargazers and was the first JavaScript framework to reach 100,000+ stars on GitHub. Since then, Vue.js has not dipped under React is star count. With that said, it is important to note that the star count is not everything, obviously. Really, they don’t mean much but it does indicate how popular a technology is over the competition. The adoption rates and downloads are what really matter and currently...