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by nightski 3146 days ago
Which order did you attempt to learn them in? Is it possible taking the time to attempt to learn react affected how easy it was to pick up Vue? I know we love to hate on React here but they are very similar. Can you identify what in particular is so confusing with regards to react vs. vue? They have a very similar API.
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sametmax 3146 days ago
Vue dlc is better. Vue doesn't require webpack. All vue tutorials agree on how to so things and they work the first time you try them. You son't have to learn a new way to do templates or pass data. You can start withou components. You can even start without npm.

In summary, vue offers a simpler hands on experience while allowing smooth learning curve to more complicated setup matching react's.

React just throws you in unkown waters and say 'now swim'. And on the side of the river, 3 persons are screaming to you contradictory advices.

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nightski 3146 days ago
Vue requires webpack when going for anything beyond a simple hello world experience. At some point beginners are going to have to enter the real world.

BTW - You don't need webpack for React either. It is entirely possible to write React without it.

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sametmax 3146 days ago
> Vue requires webpack when going for anything beyond a simple hello world experience

Not at all. That's the beauty of it. A lot of projects just drop Vue in a script tag and use no components. There are 1000's of projects out there with such a scale that anything else would be overdoing it.

> BTW - You don't need webpack for React either. It is entirely possible to write React without it.

Technically yes. But realistically no. First, you will find almost zero doc/tutorials on how to do so. All the ecosystem and community assumes webpack, and a top-down component architecture. If you ask on a forum how to do x, people will promptly tell you to use Redux. And the React API is clearly not comfortable anyway without tooling.

It's a bit like saying "well you could perfectly code a Java project without an IDE". Yes you can. But who would do it ?

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dmitriid 3146 days ago
Why do Vue docs tell you to use webpack for “large, serious projects”? https://vuejs-templates.github.io/webpack
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sametmax 3146 days ago
It seems you have weird idea of what is the average size of a web project. "Large" is not common. It's the exception.

And the reason is: projects starts small, and grow. But not all grow to become large.

The wonderful thing with vue: you start small, and IF you reach the stage you need more, you can do so easily.

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