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I've used Vue for a couple projects now and it's my favorite SPA framework by far. But I liked Knockout too, and now that feels abandoned, and I'm afraid Vue will suffer the same fate. Will it really stick around in the face of React, Angular, and Ember? I feel like there is only room for so many frameworks. So I'm a little nervous to recommend Vue for really large projects. Can anyone offer a good reason why I should stop worrying?

Btw one thing I like about Vue is how easy it is to build a traditional server-rendered app but use Vue only on pages that really need it. Not saying you can't do this elsewhere, but with Vue it is so easy!

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> Can anyone offer a good reason why I should stop worrying?

There will always be a shiny new tool, no matter which one you choose. Good products can be built in any of them (even Knockout which I loved too). Most of the frontend fatigue is just paradox of choice. For me what works to reduce paradox of choice is knowing that good architecture and clean code is much more important than the selected framework. Most of them have a lot of documentation, examples, so we should focus on creating good products, and again, most of them can be used to created high quality web apps.

Just my intuitive impression: The VueJS community is already so big that I think its reached escape velocity. It's bigger than Knockout ever was. By now, there's enough invested in vue-based apps that if anything were to happen to the core team, multiple parties would come out of the woodwork to keep it going - it's already too valuable to allow it to die.

The main dev for Vue, Evan You, funds development for it through Patreon[1]. Also, it has quite a few sponsors[2].

[1] https://www.patreon.com/evanyou [2] https://vuejs.org/#sponsors

Also a little company called Alibaba uses vue in production.

https://twitter.com/vuejs/status/669141763760766976

Well, Vue can use React, can't it? So they kind of co-exist.

It can use JSX.

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