I'm looking to move a few projects from Angular 1. What do developers think of migrating to Angular 2 vs Vue for this? I've played with Angular 2 but can't shake the feeling that it's overly complex.
I played with it a bit and what's awesome about it that you just write plain JS most of the time. No weird stuff like JSX and whatever. Docs arn't that great tho
Aurelia is a sort of the spiritual successor to Durandal.
There are a thousand factors why you'd chose one above the other. I would just be very wary of comments like: "Definitely framework X".
Just that as time goes on Angular 1 is going to fall out of support in general and for popular libraries so it might be best to switch sooner rather than later before we get more entrenched in Angular 1. Switching to another framework wouldn't be a massive undertaking right now but probably would be later. Typescript is a great feature too but you can use this in Angular 1 somewhat as well. Any thoughts?
The main difference is that angular 2 is a bit more enterprisey. It's a bit more bloated (but also more complete) and if you're a small team with a not too large app, you may find it introduces too much overhead. If you're a larger team with a larger app you'll really benefit from angular 2.
One thing that speaks for angular 2 has is their ngUpgrade module, which allows you to gradually upgrade your angular 1 app, which you may find useful.
There's a (somewhat biased IMO) comparison by vue itself here: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html#Angular-2
Can you elaborate? I've used Angular 1 a lot, Angular 2 a little and Vue not at all. What makes Vue better?
Can't speak for Vue, but Angular 2 is pretty nice, and the performance benefits are significant. There are some complexities, mainly around AoT compilation, but those are challenges that one would come across if one wanted that anyway.