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Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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What are good examples of popular websites (not behind a login) that make use of Vue or React? I ask because I keep reading about it, all programmers seem to use it, but I just don't come across websites that use it. Is it only used for backend dashboards? Or do all Vue/React sites fail to gain traction for some reason?

Facebook.com, for example. Here's a more detailed list: https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/sites-using-react

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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I'm currently making a mobile f2p game in Unity. I previously had created a Cocoa app for the game item creation/ db management. Since we changed the architecture of the game pretty heavily, I needed to rewrite the tool. I chose Electron + Vue over Cocoa. Despite having very little web dev/JS experience, I was able to make a fully functioning app in under 3 months that syncs with a server and has multi user editing. Huge fan of Vue. Haven't had the pleasure/displeasure of React so can't really compare.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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post #6

What are good examples of popular websites (not behind a login) that make use of Vue or React? I ask because I keep reading about it, all programmers seem to use it, but I just don't come across websites that use it. Is it only used for backend dashboards? Or do all Vue/React sites fail to gain traction for some reason?

Mobile Twitter uses React. https://mobile.twitter.com/facebook Airbnb uses React https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/432044 Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit Mobile, new Reddit Profile pages are all high profile sites using React that aren't just 'backend dashboards'.

Interesting. The ones not behind a login (Twitter,AirBnB,Reddit Mobile) are sites that feel laggy and clunky to me. With slow loading content, loading animations, laggy scrolling, too much stuff opening in new tabs, confusing interfaces.

I wonder if React causes/incentivises this or if it's design decisions by the coders/designers/managers.

In contrast, pages like Reddit Desktop, Google and Amazon work much better for me.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Our company migrated to vue.js, 4 months ago. Our complex app is messy with JSX, router, and new dev can't keep up with code. Now we start every new app with Vue.js. The gap between junior dev and senior dev comes closer. They can collaborate with less bugs, less problems and less time to develop.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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post #6

What are good examples of popular websites (not behind a login) that make use of Vue or React? I ask because I keep reading about it, all programmers seem to use it, but I just don't come across websites that use it. Is it only used for backend dashboards? Or do all Vue/React sites fail to gain traction for some reason?

Vuejs is also a good match for single-page demos and apps within a larger website.

Here is an example where a product demo was built with VueJS while the rest of the site is not. https://sightengine.com/demo

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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At our company we built single-page apps using Vuejs. It's very simple to pick up and easy to merge with existing templates and code (as it looks and feels a lot like standard HTML).

it takes less than a day for a dev to be up and running with Vuejs, where React is a bit more tedious to get started with.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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I have (some) experience with both React and Vue 2 and definitely prefer the later. Vue is very minimalistic but unlike React provides a lot of functionality out of the box. Stuff like the router, the computed properties, automatic change detection, HTML templates, scoped css, animations, ... . But what's more important is the fact it does all these things in an extremely elegant and unobtrusive way. The computed pro…

> unlike React provides a lot of functionality out of the box. Stuff like the router, the computed properties, automatic change detection,

I never studied Vue, but the article starts saying "Both have separate, but commonly used, router and state management libraries". This doesn't look like "out of the box" to me.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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post #6

What are good examples of popular websites (not behind a login) that make use of Vue or React? I ask because I keep reading about it, all programmers seem to use it, but I just don't come across websites that use it. Is it only used for backend dashboards? Or do all Vue/React sites fail to gain traction for some reason?

Reddit's new profile pages and their mobile web app both use react.

These?

https://www.reddit.com/user/spez

Aren't those just static html pages rendered serverside?

Is there a blog post about them or something?

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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post #6

What are good examples of popular websites (not behind a login) that make use of Vue or React? I ask because I keep reading about it, all programmers seem to use it, but I just don't come across websites that use it. Is it only used for backend dashboards? Or do all Vue/React sites fail to gain traction for some reason?

Facebook.com, for example. Here's a more detailed list: https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/sites-using-react

Facebook is behind a login.
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