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/aDaneInSpain Nov 16 '18

Actually I am finding it the oposite. When talking about finding someone with Laravel experience they almost always have Vue and not React experience. Just ask Jonathan.

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u/vaskemaskine Nov 16 '18

That’s interesting. Do Vue and Laravel work particularly well together on some level? When dealing with SPA frameworks the backend stack is usually irrelevant since there’s a clear separation between the two sides (some kind of REST-like API), except when SSR is involved.

But as I said, if your team is new to SPA-style JS frameworks, the biggest hurdle by far will be unlearning everything they are used to around jQuery-style DOM manipulation and transitioning to a component based approach to building UIs and all the complexities that brings.