[mieseratte]

I'm curious, what do y'all actually like about Vue over React? I spent over two months doing proof-of-concept migration work for an AngularJS to (React-Redux|Vue-Vuex) and, other than the component-data wiring it does internally, I found it to be worse in nearly all respects.

Despite being an "opinionated" framework, Vue provides so many escape hatches and alternatives that it, in practice, hardly seems opinionated. Additionally, the templating language it promotes seems like a step backwards compared to JSX render functions. As it were, the "unopinionated" React, by offering a small handful of primitives, ends up making things simpler and more ergonomic to work with.

I really can't seem to grok why folks like Vue over React.

[Kihashi]

I got into Vue because it was much easier to approach coming from a back-end (Python/Flask/Jinja or PHP/Symfony/Twig) perspective. It made it easy to adopt small pieces and learn as I went. React probably allows this sort of thing, too, but the documentation for Vue pointed it out first thing. Since I've started working with it, I haven't gotten a compelling reason to change to react or angular.

[mieseratte]

> React probably allows this sort of thing, too, but the documentation for Vue pointed it out first thing.

That's actually a pretty good difference I hadn't really thought about from the other perspective. React does a good job explaining the how and why, but is a bit more clinical leaving the last-mile as an exercise to the reader whereas Vue seems a bit more focused on coaching you.

I, personally, found Vue's documentation to be a bit less in-depth than I like and hadn't considered folks would prefer Vue's.