Hey guys what's better Vue or React?

I personally feel like there’s not a whole lot of reasons to argue between the two. It’s best not to get into the habit of claiming one is better than the other. They’re both two tools that are used to accomplish a similar goal. You’ve gotta love having options!

Honestly almost all of the answers are going to be bias because we all have our personal preferences. I'm going to go with React for 3 reasons.

1. I have the most experience with it
2. It has the biggest community out of all of the JavaScript frameworks
3. It has the most jobs available worldwide

Vue, it's easier to learn, it has a proper separation between logic, markup and style and it has useful directives that makes it so you can iterate over arrays and show an element much easier than mapping an array and returning html.

I haven't used React so I can't compare the two, but I did want to point out two aspects of Vue that really impressed me. They might help other readers make their choice.

1. I was able to introduce Vue gradually to an existing web app. This is much safer and predictable than rewriting everything from scratch.

2. I was pleasantly surprised by Vue's gentle learning curve.

As a person with (some) expertise in React - and even more so - as a person who co-writes the new React docs, I can give you the definite answer to this question and end all discussion once and for all...
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✨ Use whatever better clicks for you! ✨

For a detailed comparison, check this Vue's page. Even though it's biased towards Vue, it does offer more factual arguments than this type of discussion.

Also, look at the community:

• Do you like how folks talk to each other in React community or Vue community?
• Who are its leaders?
• Who owns the framework and how do you feel about it?

These are the folks who will answer your questions or who have written courses and posts you will learn from. If you dislike how someone communicates or what values they believe in, it will be more difficult to follow their instruction, participate in the conferences, and so on.

Some folks bring up job market as another argument here. I never learned Vue but I passed three job interviews in it. The frameworks are not THAT different and learning one will be much easier once you know the other, even because you will have the vocabulary to google the tools/solutions you need. Other than that, most employers have coding tests available in another framework and understand that you will need to learn their stack anyway so you won't make significant contributions in the first weeks/months. Lastly, most companies have their own ways of doing things so it's not like if you know React perfectly, you won't be confused at a place that uses React - especially that oftentimes, you will deal with legacy code and patterns that were great a few years ago but they were never updated and now just look odd.

⭐️ PERSONAL (not-so-)HOT TAKE

If I were to choose what to learn if I were to restart my journey right now, I'd make sure that I deeply understand JavaScript. Many of the issues people attribute to React stem, really, from JavaScript and from how React was implemented in this context. Really strong JS fundamentals will for sure not hurt you anyway 😊

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a4akki ・ May 22 ・ 1 min read

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neither may be the optimal choice unless hiring is the overriding concern.

Going forward eCommerce may tend more towards the server again.

As SPAs, React and Vue could be held back by their SSR hydration costs.

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I would say React:

• There are more jobs available for React dev. It may be different from where you live, but i think overall that is true.
• There are more libraries.
• Bigger community.
• Wider support.

But if you have a luxury to choose one for your next project, i would go with the one that you never worked before and learn a new skill.

Vue might be the best choice if you're a newer developer and not as familiar with advanced JavaScript concepts, while React is quite well suited for experienced programmers and developers who have worked with object-oriented JavaScript, functional JavaScript, and similar concepts

React is cool, but I'm tired of React. Vue is nice, but I don't want to learn in. React makes me annoyed and frustrated at frontend. There's something about JSX that seems... disconcerting, if it's the best word. React makes me dislike frontend, although I'd probably always use React for frontend. Vue sounds nice, but I don't have motivation to learn it, so there, I just said nothing.

I don't have a vote, but as someone who has used React lightly, I have always browsed Vue's frameworks and tooling with interest. For example, I was surprised with all the money that Facebook poured into React and JS, that the Vue community ended up creating Vite.

I think this decision could be different for each case. Both libs are great and both resolve almost anything you'll need on a frontend software development.
But as I said, the decision could be different as in a team where do you have to understand which are the pros and cons to use it, based on team experience. If it was a solo project I think that the lib that you have the most experience is the better.

If you are starting your own project and you can pick, I would go with Svelte since it is a transpiler to vanilla JavaScript. It will produce a smaller footprint to download with the page.

If pure speed is need and not too much fancy stuff, plain HTML, CSS static site is the fastest.

If you are talking about getting a job where you don’t pick, then React is the best choice since there are more jobs available for it.

Just remember, there is no right or wrong answer. It highly depends on the people you work with, the stack, your own experience and the experience of your colleagues, the stack that is already in use, the budget, etc. What you personally consider as better might be the worst choice for others, even in the same team.
Having worked with both, I consider both options depending on the use-case. Personally, I'm more comfortable with Vue but that is highly subjective and like many others in this thread I don't see any point in arguing between the two.
Go and work with both and then decide for yourself or in your team which one suits better in your situation.

Personally don't have experience with VueJS, but I have used React / React Native for 4+ years now and I love it! Why I love React?

• Plenty of third party package support
• Very strong and supportive community
• The most popular Javascript framework for web app development
• Lots of dev jobs use React and require applicants to have experience using it

I guess you could throw NextJS (React) vs NuxtJS (Vue) into the argument for which is the best full stack development framework as a way of comparing the React and VueJS ecosystems, but that's probably another conversation all together :)

They're both great. What's better depends on your situation and what you need.

Vue.js is very easy to write and learn. You don't need to hire a "Vue Developer" because anyone who knows JavaScript and frontend development fundamentals knows 60% of what they need already. If I were building an SPA and just an SPA, I'd probably use Vue.

React has an unparalleled ecosystem. If I wanted an MPA or a cross-platform application or wasn't sure, I'd go with React. If I wanted to always be able to find devs, I'd also go with React. React is basically the AWS of frameworks.

Either way, you can't really go wrong.