[joebubna]

Yeah, I'd recommend it. Although you CAN do all the ceremony you referred to and setup a complicated build environment, etc... Vue doesn't require it and can be used fairly effectively using a simple setup.

I made a little jsFiddle for you to demonstrate. This is just including the Vue.js library on the page and using it to do stuff. No build environment or anything.

https://jsfiddle.net/mjbvn0ts/4/

[koboll]

Yeah the nice thing about Vue is you can basically add it to existing HTML and import it via CDN, you can skip the build step entirely. This makes it really easy to get started.

If you're not planning on building a large app, I'd say it's a better choice than React for that alone. React excels at scale versus its rivals, but Vue is much easier to jump into and be immediately productive with.