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angular vs vue vs svelte on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, angular leads angular vs vue vs svelte with 40,990 mentions to vue’s 27,327, peaking in Sep 2016.

Mention-over-time for angular vs vue vs svelte, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

angular40,990 mentions, peak Sep 2016vue27,327 mentions, peak May 2018svelte11,471 mentions, peak Jun 2023
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

Frontend's generations in a line: Angular leads the framework wars ~2013–14, Vue rises 2016–19, then Svelte takes the newcomer crown 2020–22.

The stories behind each line

Top “angular” stories
  1. Angular 2 Final Released 838 points · 2016
  2. 2 years with Angular 445 points · 2014
  3. Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js 436 points · 2018
  4. Angular 2: Built on TypeScript 426 points · 2015
Top “vue” stories
  1. Vue.js 3 768 points · 2020
  2. Vue.js vs. React 732 points · 2017
  3. Why we chose Vue.js 637 points · 2016
  4. Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly 621 points · 2018
Top “svelte” stories
  1. Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time 907 points · 2021
  2. An experiment in UI density created with Svelte 882 points · 2024
  3. Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity 639 points · 2019
  4. Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI 624 points · 2021

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