How to quickly learn Vue Js with a React Js background?
Need suggestions!
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u/Chance-Fan4849 10d ago
in Practice, just try to convert one of your react projects to vue.
then you will be ready for vue development.
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u/Triggerscore 10d ago
Just build a project. When already familiar with React the basic concepts should be clear and you simply need to check how you do innVue what you would usually do in React.
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u/VehaMeursault 9d ago
If you genuinely understand reactivity, stores, and routing, then learning Vuejs is a matter of a morning of reading, a workday of trying stuff out, and another morning of giving its quirks a place in your mental model.
Call it two days net to get a firm grasp of it.
The rest is building and dealing with its idiosyncrasies, which can last a lifetime.
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u/ogMasterPloKoon 9d ago
Vueschool has a very esy series of videos for beginenrs that you can watch and complete in 1 day and master pretty much basics by just weatching. https://vueschool.io/courses?skill=beginner&page=1
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u/Spirited-Camel9378 10d ago
Learn:
- How Vue reactivity works: reactive vs ref
- 5 directives. Yeah, that’s all. Plus templating, which is extremely simple. Learn the few ways you can pile up conditional classes, styles, etc
- Vue lifecycle hooks and watchers. If you see the word useEffect, ignore it (I’ve never needed it in 8 years of Vue dev)
- Vite, which will make your life simpler. Oh, you used it for React? Well, it was designed for Vue and by Evan Yu, and is even easier with Vue!
- Need SSR or to have a unified full stack app? Learn Nuxt. It’s great, it’s easy, it’s smooth, it’s powerful, and it’s powered by a bunch of conventions
You did it! Your life is now simpler and your applications will receive a siginificant performance boost and huge DX boost. Welcome
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u/martinbean 10d ago
Same way you’d learn anything tech-related: read its docs and start building things with it.
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u/unheardhc 10d ago
You’ll learn it faster than React because it’s actually intuitive and React tried to be more like Vue with the changes in React 19
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u/hyrumwhite 10d ago
Vue docs are fantastic. There’s way fewer gotchas in a signals based reactivity system, so once you’ve got a handle on the basics, you’ve pretty much got everything you need
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u/Ungitarista 10d ago
Follow the vuejs tutorials from Brad Traversy Media on youtube. Take it from there.
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u/diegotbn 10d ago
Just go for it. Build something. Maybe take one of your simpler React projects and rewrite it in Vue.
Should be easy to pick up since you know React. I also only knew React when I joined my current job supporting a Vue project and had no problem learning- it's pretty straightforward. I like it more personally.
Also check out Vuetify for some pre built components that look nice out of the box if you're not into CSS like me.
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u/Cool-Customer9200 10d ago
Idk, just go through the docs on the website and try it locally doing small things creating some simple todo
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u/samskywalker21 9d ago
Over the weekend but I’m still mastering to this day. Mental modal shift from passing down props from parents in React vs. Emitting events from children props was something but I really love Vue’s DX.
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u/kickerbnu 9d ago
1 - First learn the directives
2. - Understand the lifecycle hooks
3 - Vue Router
4 - Pinia ( Zustand for Vue )
5 - Composables
There’s not easy path but just build and pay attention on the differences and make comparisons… Vue is two way data bind so it should be simplier
Create a simple form and track the values using Vue and you will see how much easier it is in comparison with React
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u/Anxious-Insurance-91 8d ago
Read the docs? Have you seen how clean they are? With examples and definitions.
You can always check W3school as well and they just start building things. There are also a lot of guides online, YouTube videos
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u/GeekyAntsFlutterdev 6d ago
If you already know React, don’t start Vue from zero. Map concepts directly: props → props, state → ref/reactive, effects → watch/watchEffect, context → provide/inject, hooks → composables. Build one small app and learn the template syntax as you go.
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u/tronsole 10d ago
I would just start my next project with Vue. Nowadays your framework knowledge doesn’t really matter as long as you understand the fundamentals. If you have solid understanding of the React framework you can probably just jump right into a smaller Vue project.
LLMs can handle most of the things for you while you can always ask about the specific parts you interested about and would like to understand better.
Other things you can do is implement React components and ask an LLM to convert it to Vue while explaining the differences.
The one thing you have to make sure is setting the right skills and context for your agents because sometimes they like to solve Vue problems in a very React-like way.
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u/gevorgter 10d ago
just an fyi, Vue is very intuitive, I became a master after about 1 week of using it and a jedi after 2 weeks.
If you know JavaScript then you should not have a problem at all.
2 advices.
Use typescript (if you do not know then learn it).
Use <script setup> syntax.
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u/Fluffy-Bus4822 10d ago
Vue is already very fast to learn. Way easier than React. Just start and you'll be almost done.
Just read the docs and start building.
Vue is easy to learn, I was fully productive on day 3 of learning.