It's like nobody wants to be caught dead using something that might not be the new hotness.
React has been dominant for at least ten years and NextJS for a good fraction of that.
The survey is a reflection of what our community responded.
Next is the largest framework in usage and is really will liked by it's users. This is clearly visible in the charts of the survey.
But for the first time we’ve run this survey, Next decreased in usage year over year (from 47% to 46%).
Astro jumped all the way from 11% to 18% with 87% responding they want to use it more.
Eleventy dropped in usage from our respondents from 19% last year to 16% this year.
None of this is an attack on anyone, it’s just data from our survey. The rise of Astro is one of the most newsworthy bits of data from the survey and reflects genuine excitement in the community we’re part of.
- The misleading title change
- The missing methodology document
- The missing context of absolute scores alongside deltas
All things that have changed since last year's survey.
Nothing changed in the methodology since last year and as always the survey was run by our data team.
If you scroll past the editorial part of what our team found newsworthy in the data and down to the actual survey data, you'll see clear charts of absolute framework usage and detailed breakdowns on satisfaction for each framework.
It's fine to not be an expert in Data Analysis, and if it's true that the company no longer employs someone with those skills, there should be a greater willingness to make adjustments and corrections when problems are raised with publicized analysis.
It doesn’t make next/eleventy look bad (of course they are ranked near the origin given their maturity and adoption). It makes Astro look like something worth investigating for a few minutes.
Vercel is big enough and important enough that such a reader will undoubtedly know of it. That reader will probably, but not certainly, also know about eleventy.
Netlify, who arguably started or at least encouraged the space Vercel inhabits, is understandably pissed that they aren't in Vercel's shoes today. Eleventy is pissed that they are receiving a bit of collateral damage in that messaging war.
Vercel and Netlify offer essentially the same thing: easy hosting of mostly static websites + a few bells and whistles. They each support development of frameworks (eleventy, Next.js, Gatsby, and perhaps others) that make their hosting business more compelling to use. Netlify branded it's approach as "Jamstack" which I believe stood for "Javascript and some other Marketing Stuff". Now that the winds of change are blowing, Netlify want to reposition themselves as something a bit different and down play the old stuff and also not make it look like their rivals are doing to well.
Although the features can work without Vercel, it's a second class citizen.
The more popular Next is, the less reason people would choose netlify over nextjs as a default option.
Even more puzzling was that a few months prior, their partnerships team had been working with us to get our customers' ecommerce storefronts on the platform. Netlify's (then) head of partnerships left and nobody else followed up ever. Our customers are now pointed at Fly.io instead, and everyone is quite happy with that recommendation.
My anecdote, and this article, seems like evidence of Netlify's reactivity to Vercel over customer-oriented growth. Vercel, in contrast, is more focused on developing open-source projects that organically brings people in.
edit: what's with the downvotes, did I offend someone?
