A year ago I wrote “Angular vs. React: Show me the Money”. I claimed that Angular practically owns the enterprise market in regards to single page applications. At least here in Switzerland AngularJS was a de-facto standard for enterprise SPA projects and Angular could inherit that momentum.

I think this is about to change. For creating modern SPAs there are viable alternatives to Angular.

Most of the courses I taught in 2017 were Angular courses. But lately I get increasing requests for React courses and coaching from companies with traditional enterprise environments.

Of course we all live in our own echo chamber.

I tried to look beyond my echo chamber and find some indicators about the popularity of Angular and React.

This post is part of a series. Check out the other posts in Observations about Angular vs. React.

Public Usage

There are many examples of known companies using or promoting React. Some prominent examples are:

I had a hard time finding relevant public sites using Angular. There are many sources hinting that Angular is widely used internally at Google:

But Google is using Angular in a very different way than the rest of the Angular community.

Downloads

Looking at npm downloads React is a clear winner: