React almost made me give up front end development. And in a way, it did.
I'm trying to leave application development altogether and focus more on interactive content with JavaScript.
I hate talking about business to non-entrepreneurs. It has always been a bad experience. I'm always told I am not doing it right. I usually get advices like "Your website should be more pretty", "why would someone use your app when there's a free (shittier) version already?", "you charge too much money, people can't afford that", "don't send emails, that's annoying!", etc
PHP powers the two most popular CMS' in the world: Wordpress and Drupal. It will never die. Wordpress makes people money. Like your own virtual marketer/salesperson.
Damn, WPEngine's been under a lot of attack lately.
They do hold a lot of valuable assets in their servers. Say what you will about Wordpress, but it's essentially the ultimate sales and marketing tool of the 21st century.
1) React.js starts to lose popularity due to it's ultra complex tooling ecosystem. People want to feel like what they learn will be still be useful at their next job. The React ecosystem doesn't provide that; the React ecosystem tends to burn people out.
2) Smaller frameworks like Vue or Riot takes the spotlight.
3) Angular 2 is a hit thanks to its "batteries included" design, which will appeal to React burnouts.
4) A new JavaScript rendering-based framework will come out and become a hit. Something like Turbolinks or Glimmer, except it doesn't break jQuery or sandboxes you to an ecosystem.