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> VueJS is smaller, around 30kb, but not that small. Also, it is very opinionated and we don’t want to force people of the future to use VueJS.

I don't understand what the criticism is supposed to be here.

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They wanted it under 15kb. And for some reason, give future devs ability to not use Vue.

I don’t know how they settled on 15kb, but “don’t want to force people of future” is as stupid of a reason as I have seen. Surely, “people of future” can refactor old code, or have different constraints altogether

Seems like a tautology. They didn't want Vue because they didn't want Vue.

Whatever your choice is, you're going to have to move off of it one day.

They want to write their own framework and inflict it on the engineering team

Way more fun than actual customer problems

Instead of learning gzip, now in 2 years everyone will have to learn a library that has been abandoned and has almost no tooling or documentation!

It's like when they didn't want to codify SQLite as Web SQL so they tortured everyone with an extra layer of crap they added on it.

They don’t want to emit greenhouse gasses because of a few kbs and they don’t want future people to deal with Vue.js. Talk about first-world problems…

I've never been more productive in my life with a combination of Vue and Rails.

Curious - did you use Rails in API mode?

ive worked on vue and have been looking to dip my toes into ruby on rails, any tips?

Why does it has to be criticism? They didn't choose it and they did say it's bad. Just it's not what they want.

The article purports to be a rational comparison. If you just want to write an uncritical opinion piece, do it. If you claim you are working pros and cons, do that.

30kb is too much for js. A modern website should run fine on half of that.

Any _real_ modern website should run fine on under 1Kb, no matter the contained data

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