I encounter this impression a lot and find it a bit confusing. I suppose this is what it looks like at a distance, because at a distance you see news and headlines, not practical realities. In point of fact, I think the VueJS boomlet is over, and I doubt its uptake got anywhere near ReactJS. The community has by and large settled on Webpack for building and bundling, and Webpack itself is quite stable after a few years of finding the right API and its proper place in the stack. Finally, the community seems to be converging on TypeScript, an eminently sane compile-to-JS language, and an increasing share of the ecosystem has increasingly robust TypeScript support