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Most probably because Vue is enormously popular in China and npm mirrors are mostly used in china.

Vue can also be used from a CDN and doesn't require NPM.

React can be used from a CDN as well, including using it with JSX. Although using JSX from CDN scripts is a bad idea in production because it's slower.

https://npm.taobao.org/package/vue https://npm.taobao.org/package/react

Vue looks like it's about 1.8x more popular in China.

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