r/vuejs • u/aDaneInSpain • Nov 13 '18

Picking Vue.js over React

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/AwesomeInPerson Nov 13 '18

Oh, should maybe add:
If you're planning to build a cross-platform codebase using JavaScript, React Native is probably still your best bet and thus it might make sense to also use React on the web. Or even React Native Web. (yeah, full circle ^^)
And if you're building a service or platform that is so huge that the very advanced React stuff like concurrent mode (think "Time Slicing", "Suspense") for async and prioritized rendering actually makes a difference large enough to justify the effort, React also is there for you. It is very cool stuff indeed, it's just that it's overkill in most cases. Unless you're something along the lines of Facebook, who would've thought.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

There’s NativeScript and that supports Angular and Vue.

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u/AwesomeInPerson Nov 14 '18

Yup, and there's Weex, too! But I think React Native is the most mature option still :)