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To me vue is like react but with

> simpler syntax. I think single-file components is a great thing when you're getting started. While true "js ninjas" will call me out on this, they're probably employed by a large org with problems that are different from mine.

> less choice. I only write frontend occasionally. How would I know which react-router to choose? What's the best redux package? What about handling CSS, what's the flavor du jour? Vue says "want something done - do this. here's vue router, vuex, etc."

Overall, the two are very much similar in both how they work and what they provide, but one is developed and used by an organization that has a virtually infinite supply of engineers, and the other is being developed by one guy.

Technology that makes Facebook successful may be inappropriate for a successful hackathon or a small startup

This is simpler syntax than JSX?

Vue:

  <v-chip v-if="manager.department == 'Engineering'" color="primary" text-color="white" small>{{ manager.department }}</v-chip>

JSX:

  if (manager.department == 'Engineering') {
    return <VChip color="primary" text-color="white" small>{manager.department}</VChip>
  }

I dunno about you but I grok code that uses whitespace, braces, and parenthesis to identify branching logic way faster than tag attributes.

Comparison falls down, because

a) you can write JSX in Vue components since that's your preference, and this is explicitly documented and supported: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/render-function.html#JSX, and

b) that first example violates the Vue style guide. https://vuejs.org/v2/style-guide/

if we want we can reduce too:

  return ( manager.department === 'Engineering' && <VChip color="primary" text-color="white" small>{manager.department}</VChip> )

they look pretty similar to me, one is kinda like js-in-html, the other is html-in-js, to each their own.

I'm talking more about the whole experience of building out a full app. How do I structure my codebase? Which packages should I use in 2017? It's a much more trivial exercise with vue if you're only doing frontend work occasionally and not as part of your normal job.

I have to point out that https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app is great if you do decide to go with React and want answers to aforementioned questions.

In vue we have Vue CLI, which is becoming as powerful as create-react-app and it also has nuxt.js https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli https://nuxtjs.org/

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