These are all great points. I agree wholeheartedly that Vue is very easy to learn. It was the first FE framework I learned, and as I mentioned, it took me a while to finally decide to move to React because I do appreciate its simplicity.
To someone just starting out with JS/web dev, I'd most likely recommend Vue because it fairly easy to learn. I probably ought to make it clearer in this post that I chose React not for ease of learning the framework. Rather, as I've come to understand JavaScript better over the years, I've actually come to really appreciate and even rely on the "lower level" features of React to write the kind of software I want. Plus, at this point I just feel like I can't live without TypeScript, and overall I've found it a lot easier to setup with React.
Yes, hooks definitely take some getting used to! When I first learned about useEffect, I remember thinking "seriously, I have to declare its dependencies? Vue's computed and watch do that for me!". However, I came to appreciate the simplicity that useEffect offered - I didn't have to worry about the difference between things like mounted, created, beforeCreate, etc. Granted, Vue 3's composition API will remove a lot of these nuances.
There's no perfect framework, and I'm not here to say that one is right and another is wrong. At the end of the day, I personally feel a lot safer making bigger applications with React.
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These are all great points. I agree wholeheartedly that Vue is very easy to learn. It was the first FE framework I learned, and as I mentioned, it took me a while to finally decide to move to React because I do appreciate its simplicity.
To someone just starting out with JS/web dev, I'd most likely recommend Vue because it fairly easy to learn. I probably ought to make it clearer in this post that I chose React not for ease of learning the framework. Rather, as I've come to understand JavaScript better over the years, I've actually come to really appreciate and even rely on the "lower level" features of React to write the kind of software I want. Plus, at this point I just feel like I can't live without TypeScript, and overall I've found it a lot easier to setup with React.
Yes, hooks definitely take some getting used to! When I first learned about
useEffect, I remember thinking "seriously, I have to declare its dependencies? Vue'scomputedandwatchdo that for me!". However, I came to appreciate the simplicity thatuseEffectoffered - I didn't have to worry about the difference between things likemounted,created,beforeCreate, etc. Granted, Vue 3's composition API will remove a lot of these nuances.There's no perfect framework, and I'm not here to say that one is right and another is wrong. At the end of the day, I personally feel a lot safer making bigger applications with React.