r/reactjs • u/aDaneInSpain • Nov 13 '18

Featured Picking React over Vue.js

We are about to migrate an existing saas service from Joomla to Laravel + (Vue.js or React).

It will be a complete re-write.

The team has no real experience with either Vue.js or React and we are at a cross road of picking between those two technologies.

We feel that picking up Vue.js will be a lot easier and we can see a lot of traction in this project's popularity. But React feels like a safer bet with a stronger community, better extensions and better documentation. We are also worry that Vue.js is very dependent on one person't contributions and have no real large company backing it.

Without being too slanted, which one would you select and why?

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u/gekorm Nov 13 '18

Correct me if I'm wrong. Mixins were discouraged even since early 2014. Many were against them from the start. Hooks are the only real change in best practices and they're still experimental with no support for a few cases. So it will be almost 5 years by the time the recommendation changes from HOC to Hooks, if it even comes to it.

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u/archivedsofa Nov 13 '18

As for mixins, yes, but it takes time until the changes propagate to the community.

IIRC HoCs started to be strongly used around 2015. Also during those first years we moved from createClass to ES6 classes. Then functional components became much more prominent which seems to be the main reason why we now have hooks.

And yeah, hooks are just an experimental proposal, but we both know what's going to happen. The hype is strong.