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Discussion on: React vs Vue: Compare and Contrast

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Pan Chasinga

This is my personal take, please take it with a grain of salt.

Vue

I'm quite frustrated with Angular, and although Vue seems easier to begin with, it still embraces some patterns from Angular, like bi-directional bindings, which are really confusing in a bigger code base.

Vue still requires one to separate representation (HTML) from data (JS), which is a conventional way of thinking but the context-switch can be exhausting.

I like the community and the fact that it's being authored to massive adoption by just a developer is empowering. The ecosystem is catching up and on-par with React.

React

Although React may appear to have a lot of jargons, it is very fast to learn coming from a functional language. If you have tried Elm, I think you will appreciate React (Elm is like the ultimate Nirvana for React). It was confusing to me at first, but more and more functional components seem to make a lot of sense and easier on debugging.

I like the fact that I can think of elements in terms of data (JSX) instead of HTML and code in the traditional way. It's very much coherent with the way many functional languages do things. The current introduction of hooks finally obliterate the need to write class-based components, which is awesome.

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GaurangDhorda

which one is your biggest frustration about angular?

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santosh

Angular itself.