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Does State of JS 2019 matter for SAP
Hi Folks,
Today, I was hearing to the podcast – JavaScript Jabber on the State of JavaScript 2019 survey and its results.
In this blog post, I would like to share my personal views as UI5 developer on this survey and its relevance or non-relevance of it for UI5 community.
Some Introduction to JS Survey:
State of JS Survey is conducted every year starting from 2016 and it is curated and maintained by:
- Sacha Greif (me!): Design, writing, coding
- Raphaël Benitte: Data analysis, data visualizations
The link to the 2019 survey is : https://2019.stateofjs.com/
Some Highlights:
- React leads the chart among developer community as most used and also loved JS Framework. ( Expected, especially with all the positive news around it from various blog posts)
- GraphQl leads the chart as most loved yet most unused data retrieval technology( Probably, that is true love 🙂 . To not know and yet fall in love with it )
- Redux is way ahead of MobX in terms of have used but MobX suffers from people not using it.
- Typescript is leading the race in JS flavors
- rest, I dont know understand 🙁
Now as SAPUI5 developer, Its a bit sad to not even have the technology mentioned in the survey. But, that makes me wonder, the relevance of these surveys.
Surveys depict the mood of the participants. As the participants in this survey are developers, its relevant for people to be up to date with latest trends. But most of the technologies are well supported and will stay on without getting obsolete. Especially, SAP UI5 should stay on for few more years as per the latest Road map of SAP.
Our development choices are influenced by trends but actual decisions have many factors. When we need to choose a technology, we need to the existing ecosystem, support from vendor, team structure and also the local availability of the developers on that technology.
If purely based on survey, I start a project on react and find it hard to have a team of React developers or blend of the ecosystem of developments, what purpose would it serve?
Emotions are good like deserts but practicality is a bitter pill which we need to take for good health.
However, the positive aspect of survey is it opens our eyes to the community as a whole and the direction of certain technologies.
Trends help us to make our choices to learn a new technology but as consultants our primary responsibility should be ensure the benefits and profitability of our customers. We need to (try and) be unbiased when we offer our solutions and just be swayed by trends. The usage of experience can be the real value-add in these situations.
Finally, it was a learning opportunity. But, I feel it should be used as a learning opportunity and not make decisions purely based on it.
I would love to hear your views on it.
Thank you.
Sharath
(The views expressed in this blog are personal)
Hi,
It is a good point you mention in your blog. Technologies are nice and they come and leave very often. The stability of a technology should be the first question a customer should ask.
In fact SAPUI5 use some "old" concept or techno but you are sure that it will still be maintained during at least 5 years and probably more. SAP is behind that and it is good.
The technologies go too fast and in a team it is very hard to be up to date all the time... We need maturity of knowledge to build maintnable product.
As we can see, the way of SAP is doing the development of the framework UI5 is cleaver, because you can still do your dev using old stuff but if you are much more geeky, you can as well use the power of UI5 and other trendy techno. So it is very open and it is nice. But sometimes it can perturb the full sight.
Regards,
Joseph
Your comments add more insight to the points, I wanted to share in the blog.
Thanks Joseph BERTHE