"Some of Vue’s syntax will look very similar to AngularJS (e.g. v-if vs ng-if). This is because there were a lot of things that AngularJS got right and these were an inspiration for Vue very early in its development"
Because in the end, Vue.js has stuff in common with React, like the virtual DOM (you don't see this in Angular 2+) and has stuff in common with AngularJS (the good parts).
Check this out: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html
Don't go thinking you are going to read a biased comparison, the Vue.js vs React section has the blessing from a core React contributor (Dan Abramov): https://github.com/vuejs/vuejs.org/issues/364#issuecomment-2...