So back end wise I'm a decent programmer. I'd like to think there's nothing I couldn't build. Code might not be beautiful or as elegant as other folks, but it'll work.
Front end wise there is also nothing I can't build, but I'm a simple HTML and CSS kinda guy. I can throw in some JS when required but really JS isn't my thing.
I want to go back and redo some of my front ends with a JS framework so that I can access some of the functionality that they provide, and also I just think that I should know how to do this shit.
The two candidates are Vue, or React. What do you think?
My framework of choice is Laravel.
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What I like to do is learn a framework while learning JS. Ask myself "Why does this work?" when seeing something I don't understand, for example. Vue definitely feels easier to me, I made a cheat sheet for it, too.
Hope this helps, it should ease you into it a little: dev.to/lucashogie/getting-started-...
Laravel and Vue seem to be VERY good friends, fwiw. Beyond that: spend a day with React. Just have a go at it.
Jsx COULD drive you crazy. Or you might love it. But react and jsx are as tight as Angular and rxjs. Make sure you're okay with that.
(My angle: I can't damn stand jsx' equivalent of v-if. Can't stinkin stand it lol)
If you work on mostly CMS systems(excluding headless ones) and archaic Server Side Rendering type of applications, then probably don't bother.
But you foresee yourself building server-client decoupled applications, and you want the server agnostic of the consuming client, then probably it makes more sense to use a JS framework to maintain the front end. Frameworks make repeatative tasks easy, and it also becomes easier to maintain the UI in the longer run.
Ultimately, its not a application design question, its a architecture pattern question.
Yes learning things is great. Both react and vue are great options.