No, that’s just a false conclusion you’ve been conditioned to assume. When there are stats saying server-side JS is 1.6% of all web facing deployments, how many people are talking about it in places people go when they’re having trouble using it? A BAD indicator of “popularity” or “use”.

Particularly when node.js and react are both extremely poorly documented, the latter — like all this framework mental midgetry — taking the simplest of tasks and making it many times harder to accomplish.

When idiocy like react or jQuery are harder to use than the underlying language but at the same time media darlings thanks to propaganda and lies, one shouldn’t be surprised that nubes and rubes alike are on the constant prowl for help. Unlike say… a relatively simple well documented language.

It’s also assumptive that it’s all server-side scripting, given that we’re all stuck pretty much using JavaScript client-side regardless of the back end language. Most “stats” people use don’t take that into account.

Be careful of making false assumptions, particularly when it comes to “popularity”. THINK!