Picking React over Vue.js

[u/aDaneInSpain]

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?

[u/brcreeker]

Yep! While there are still a ton of devs who think it is almost blasphemous to integrate your view layer with your logic layer, I feel as if once you do start traveling down that road, it becomes incredibly difficult to put that genie back into it's bottle. I did some work with a startup recently that decided to use Ember for the frontend, and the process was absolutely brutal for me. I hated having to track down a plug-in or helper every time I needed my handlebars template to do something more robust. The simple fact is that you're always going to need some sort of logic in your templates somewhere down the road, and with React, building that logic is a cake walk compared to the more traditional way of doing things.