The results are out. State of JS 2024
Meteor was used by 3% of respondents under Back-end frameworks
Per this site:
…there are 13.8 million Javascript developers worldwide.
3% would be a substantial number, i.e. 400k.
If the survey respondents are primarily US/Europe/South America, the number could be lower of course.
Following up – another back-of-the-envelope calculation --per Electroiq:
- 6.3 million websites use Node.js, which has become the widely used tool for web development in the US.
3% of 6.3m is 189,000 - still substantial. And of course that’s US only in this case.
its 306 answers from some 15k, this isn’t significant.
You can’t extrapolate from that set, also there is a bias, since state-of-js is more known in certain communities and do not represent all js developers. I’d argue the bias is in favour for meteor (because the very creator of the survey was a former active meteor community member), so the real usage is probably much smaller.
Interesting to see a similar jump in interest in Vitest similar to what Jest had.
It’s a bit of a pity to see two of the more feature complete frameworks, Meteor and AdonisJS, have such a small share in the backend section.
That said I guess 2024 was the year of async/await as far as Meteor and Express concerned, otherwise the year of Vite!
You only have 9,975 answering for this table. So 306 on 9,975 == 3%. You cannot assume anything about those not answering unless there is a prior skip question asking if they use no back end framework and if so, they skip this question.
You can’t extrapolate from that set.
Actually, statistical significance is based on total sample size, in this case, 9,975.