React Vs Vue-which Framework Is The Best In 2020

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JavaScript libraries have stocked the development market ever since. Angular, React and the latest, Vue have always brought up some or the other simplified way of development. Choosing between any of these is tough but it entirely depends on the type of application you are going to build.

Meet your candidates first:

What is React?

React is an open source JS framework for frontend development, released in 2013. It interacts with HTML documents through a virtual DOM and practices component based approach. React is flexible and offers ease of development especially for complex applications.

What is Vue?

Vue is another JS open source framework released in 2014. Since then there are many updated versions of Vue. It is preferred by developers because it is a progressive framework that means, you can migrate any project feature wise whenever you want. It has many improved features, is lightweight and fully-fledged.

In terms of popularity

When it comes to popularity, React is more powerful because it has all the support from Facebook and the large internet community. The bigger community ...
... and maximum Q & A on Stack overflow mean more chances of third party libraries, tools, extensions and support from IDEs.

Vue’s community is still growing, therefore, it does not have such extensive support of third party libraries and tools but developers love it. Major companies like Nintendo, Gitlab, Adobe are using VueJS.

In terms of Skill availability

React is undoubtedly a popular library and has more popular engineers available to hire. A Front end survey in 2019 stated that around 48% of React developers are available for the companies and that for Vue there were 23%. Although React developers are more in numbers, Vue remains one of the highly desired technology to be learnt by the programmers. Infact, reports say that Vue developers will increase in the upcoming years.

In terms of Documentation

Documentation is one important thing when it is about gaining knowledge about the technology. React has basic documentation of the technology but the advanced concepts are not presented as clearly as are required. On the other hand Vue docs are well written, explained and carry better answers for advanced concepts. The API references in the Vue docs are one of the best. Future Vue JS developers or the ones in making should find it easy to understand as the documentation done for Vue JS is quite elaborative and simplified.

In terms of HTML Templating and JSX

The major difference between React and Vue JS is that React uses JSX for HTML and CSS expressed via JavaScript with XML syntax. This feature helps in building standalone GUI components which contain all the rendering instructions. Whereas, Vue uses traditional approach with HTML templates, styles and JS. Vue framework is rather flexible as it provides the freedom of complete customization such as:

• You can use SCSS or CSS scoping
• You can write your code in preprocessors like Pug
• You can Drop templates in favour of render functions or JSX

In terms of Ecosystem

If you differentiate between React and Vue JS on the basis of their ecosystem, React depends on other libraries whereas Vue is completely standalone. React depends on external architecture solutions like Flux/Redux for tasks like routing and state management.

Vue JS has a few companion libraries but the functionality in React that demands to use the libraries (e.g. props check) is already integrated in Vue. In this case Vue saves a lot of time in application development.

Conclusion

These basics will settle your confusion on using React and Vue for your project. So, to avoid the catch that which framework is the best today and in upcoming years, you should consider what type of application you are going to build. If the project is to be completed soon hire the best Vue JS developers and begin developing in Vue. For complex enterprise applications give it a shot with React.

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