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I’ve found React the complex one, especially with reactive context wrapper hooks (or whatever they’re called). I have a high confidence that when I do an "Inspect element" on a Vue or Svelte component, I’m seeing the tree pretty close to how Vue and Svelte see it. In React, there’s at least twenty hidden layers (at least according to the React development tools last time I touched React code; it was horrible).

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You're not wrong. "Higher order components" might be the phrase you're looking for. I could argue that they're not really very popular any more with the introduction of the hooks API. But even without those there's a lot of transient things in the tree that I can't explain.

Vue really got it's act together in many ways from very start. Single file components are super ergonomic. I don't feel React ever nailed that with at least 10x different solutions. That and global state with VueX is so natural compared to, again, 10x different solutions in React.

Vue is a delight in many ways. I'm just currently seething over some issues I had with it's reactive state - and that's where I'm really siding with React. I could go on but I know it's a total rant.

I’m less happy with the Vue 2 -> 3 transition, partially because I think that Vue 3 is probably best described as "React, but designed", so we’re investigating Svelte for our next iteration of real web UIs (as opposed to whatever the hell it is that Flutter provides).

In many ways, Svelte 3 feels like what Vue 3 should have been. The whole way that hooks works feels ugly and inelegant.

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