> React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did.

> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

I'm not sure this chart is very good evidence of this claim. There are so many other things named "react" -- Nike React shoes, Kids React videos, reactionary politics, and so on -- that it's a bit like claiming Trump.js is the most popular JavaScript library in the world because of this chart: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...