WHY STARTUPS CHOOSE REACT (AND WHEN YOU SHOULDN'T)

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

React dominates startup funding, capturing 88.6% of the $2.85 billion raised by software startups in 2025, despite the availability of alternative frameworks like Vue, Angular, and Svelte. While React's massive ecosystem provides significant advantages, with over 1 million active projects compared to competitors' 100K-128K, approximately 85% of projects across all framework ecosystems end up abandoned on GitHub. Interestingly, smaller frameworks like Svelte show better project survival rates (36.1% vs React's 20.7% for quality projects).