[jtrn]

In our small firm, we did a review of the usual suspects when deciding which of the big players would be the right horse to bet on for the future when planing to rewrite our core application.

We ended up with Vue vs. Svelte and landed on Vue/Nuxt since we agreed they have the most intuitive syntax for us, and it seemed like the one with the best trajectory, technologically speaking.

That was one year ago. It's not moving as fast as I would hope, but I still think Vue/Nuxt is a better choice than React at least. This article seems to support this somewhat.

Also, I did a review (with the help of all the big LLMs), and they seem to agree that Vue has the syntax and patterns that are best suited for agentic coding assistance.

The wins with regards to "First Contentful Paint" and "size" is not the most important. We just trust the Vue community more. React seems like a recipe for a bloated bureaucratic mess. Svelte still looks like a strong contender, but we liked the core team of Vue a lot, and most of us just enjoy Vue/Nuxt syntax/patterns better.

[zwnow]

A big advantage with Vue is also that it has options and composition API, so if one feels janky you can still try the other. I've tried moving away from Vue just to test some other frameworks but none have given me such an easy way to manage state, reactivity, modularity... I always come back to it.

[hdjfjkremmr]

vue is better, the problem is it's been dead for more than 3 years now.

[jtrn]

The only way this makes sense is if you are looking at the Vue 2 GitHub page. The new Vue 3 is at 52k stars on GitHub, has multiple releases per month, and is ranked 7th A-tier framework in the "State of JS" framework rankings. It holds second place in frontend framework "experience with" and "sentiment," just behind React, with 6+ million weekly downloads on socket.dev and npmstats, ahead of both Angular and Svelte. So, I guess we have a different definition of "dead."

[rk06]

people underestimate the size of JavaScript community by a lot.

all apps need a js frontend, while there backend can be in Java, rails, python, c#, nodejs etc.

even at number 2, vuejs is likely to have more users than multiple popular backend frameworks combined

[qmmmur]

What do you mean? Vue is perfectly capable and mature