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Yeah, it's not like a single web framework has been the most widely used for seven years running. Oh, wait...

Which web framework has been the frontrunner for 7 years? jQuery?

According to the latest Stack Overflow survey[0], the most popular is React, which hasn't been the top for the last 7 years. And I wouldn't call jQuery the obvious choice before that, as it's been consistently fading in popularity.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...

I wouldn't call jQuery a framework. It's an API wrapper (warper). Your link also lists html/css as a programming language

NPM download stats paint a more accurate picture. I didn't include jQuery because it's not a framework. (React calls itself a view library, but it's definitely a framework.)

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