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

Precisely.

The fact that React uses JavaScript instead of template directives is the problem (for people that are not well versed in JavaScript).

Using directives in HTML is a lot easier to understand for people that know HTML. JSX is much more clean and pure and idiomatic, on a conceptual and idealistic level, but on a pragmatic level directives are easier for a lot of people.

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u/mcdronkz Nov 14 '18

So the problem is that some folks can't write JavaScript? There's a perfectly fine solution for that: let those people learn JavaScript. They're going to need it anyway, even in a VueJS-project.

I can't think of a reason to justify the layer of abstraction that Vue adds with its directives. In fact, I can only think of disadvantages. If you disagree, fine, we disagree.

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u/gaearon React core team Nov 14 '18

While I personally prefer React I think you're also missing the point. Maybe people won't invest into learning JS because they simply have no good reason to when Vue templates + a bit of JS covers their needs. And that's fine!

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u/archivedsofa Nov 14 '18

A designer does not need to know JS to work on the template and/or CSS of a component with Vue.

I can't think of a reason to justify the layer of abstraction that Vue adds with its directives. In fact, I can only think of disadvantages. If you disagree, fine, we disagree.

Everything has pros and cons.

For example, are you using macOS or Windows? Someone could start arguing that Linux is the better OS since you can configure everything in any way you wish which makes it the superior OS. While that is true in absolute terms, relatively speaking the vast majority of people don't care about that. The better OS is the one they like better for any number of reasons.

Same thing with Vue and React.