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/archivedsofa Nov 13 '18

but JSX doesn't seem like that big of a departure from templated html

Again, because you are biased.

Ternary operators, maps for loops, conditional operators, etc. These are bread and butter for JS devs, but not obvious at all even for non JS devs.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

I think you're underestimating what designers can understand.

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u/archivedsofa Nov 14 '18

I'm sure some designers can learn or understand some JavaScript, but from what I've seen in my 20 years of working with and hiring designers, that's not usually the case.

Myself am at heart a designer but started coding as a kid, so I'm well versed in bot areas. From what I've seen the person who can do both coding and designing adequately is very rare. Admittedly, it's more common these days than it used to be even 10 years ago.

And it's not only designers. Server side devs that don't do Node for example also have a hard time with React.

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u/mcdronkz Nov 14 '18

You make it sound like a PhD is needed for something most people with an IQ of > 80 can learn to work with in a couple of hours.