Stack Overflow, a respected question-and-answer website that attract quite a few Web Development Professionals, has been conducting member surveys about the coding frameworks they typically use, and it seems as if jQuery has been losing significant market share when compared to React.JS in recent years. When nearly 50,000 web development professionals were surveyed on this topic, 41.1% indicated that they favor using React.JS. As for jQuery users, they have dropped to 34.52%.
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The reasons given by survey respondents for their React.JS preference over jQuery are certainly interesting. Let's take a look at a few of them:
"Lack of Browser Support"
As React.JS is a full stack library, it doesn't require a browser vendor to implement it. This means you don't need to wait for the support to be added into the latest versions of IE, Chrome and Firefox.
"Maintainability"
The source code of React.JS, unlike jQuery, does not have any external dependencies which means it's simpler to work with. The source code is well documented and it's also easy to test out.
"Cross-platform Compatibility"
React.JS is based on two key concepts: the Virtual DOM and JSX. Virtual DOM is a concept where the DOM is never directly manipulated, and JSX is the programming language which powers HTML. This has been made possible because React.JS uses data-bound programming where the state of the model is determined by the data bindings rather than the DOM.
Another thing about React.JS which is very powerful is the ability to combine reusable components into one large component with its associated state. This means that if you need to do a very specific, complex task, then you don’t have to write a component to do it. Rather you can reuse the same component and just update it with new data that it needs. This was mentioned by many of the developers who responded to the Stack Overflow survey.
"Developer Ease"
With React.JS you won't need to be aware of JavaScript's language quirks. Developers are less likely to have problems working with React.JS because they can be much more productive when writing React.JS. Some of the developers said that they were able to be more productive with React.JS. For more information click here https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-popular-technologies-web-frameworks.
