Framework · 2013–2020 · Cloud Scale
Polymer / Web Components hype
Google's web components push before the platform was ready. Shadow DOM slides; React won the component war.
Why Polymer / Web Components hype faded
Polymer faded because web components solved encapsulation years before tooling and SSR stories caught up. Every framework rolled its own component model faster than standards landed. The primitives stuck in browsers; the framework did not.
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Framework · 2016–now
Angular (2+)
Batteries-included SPA platform for teams that want opinions and CLI scaffolding.
Framework · 2013–now
React
Components and unidirectional data. Won the front-end by being good enough and having a gravitational ecosystem.
Language · 1995–now
JavaScript
The only language that runs in every browser. Accidental monopoly turned deliberate platform.