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Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by inimino »

TekMol wrote: post #14
madeofpalk wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fo…

Big web properties like these tend to be developed by huge teams and tend to prioritize features over performance.

It's partly Conway's law and partly the result of having lots of users and features being easier to add than take away.

None of these things really have much to do with React. If your app was going to be slow anyway, React won't help you. However, like Angular, React makes it easier to break things down into components and work on them separately, so it's popular with the same big teams that make bulky and slow web pages, just like Angular was before it. Correlation, not causation.

Unlike Angular, React is also fantastic for small teams making lean pages that load blazing fast, which is why it's become so popular so quickly.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by amauta »

__BrianDGLS__ wrote: post #47

I have built applications using React and most recently Vue2. Both are very very similar and if you are familiar with one you will be able to pick up the other quite easily. In regards to webpages both are capable of doing the same things and fit the same uses cases. That said however if I was to start a greenfield application today, I would choose React. The reason for this is that react is better known, it is easie…

Vue is backed by one of the biggest companies in China. You need to do more research. Vue is more popular in China than React. I would say I would rather start a new an app using Vue because of the learning curve is a lot faster to pick up than React.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by jazoom »

twii wrote: post #42

Working with React for almost 3 years now. Came from Angular, Bootstrap, jQuery, etc.. Done small and very large projects with it. It scales better than anything I've used before. It's amazingly reliable and robust. Looking at Vue I cannot think of 1 single benefit I gain by switching. It doesn't even come close to what React is capable of imao. I really have no clue why people are pushing this at all.. Are there any…

I switched a reasonably large project and there were many gains with no loss. They've all been said before by me and other people, including in this thread. If you don't see them it's because you don't want to.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by dejv »

mpolichette wrote: post #23

Do people like Vue because it's more declarative than react? Is it mostly angular devs switching and getting the best of react but still having directives? I like the control react gives me without the black box 'compiler' which seems like it makes a bunch more choices for you. I'm probably biased, someone cmv?

I did ignored all the modern js frameworks for a long time, so for me Vue is jquery replacement, I like that you can use it in lightweight way and mix it into legacy apps.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by amauta »

k__ wrote: post #35

Things you're sacrificing when going away from React: 1. Stability. FB uses it for their main product, which is probably the biggest web app of them all, they pay many devs to work fulltime on it. People coming from Angular, who had to migrate all those breaking changes over the years know the struggle. 2. Options like React-Native, React-VR and co. React enables your devs to acquire a whole new range of possibilitie…

Vue is backed by one of the biggest companies in China and many Chinese startups.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by subpixel »

amauta wrote: post #62
__BrianDGLS__ wrote: post #47

I have built applications using React and most recently Vue2. Both are very very similar and if you are familiar with one you will be able to pick up the other quite easily. In regards to webpages both are capable of doing the same things and fit the same uses cases. That said however if I was to start a greenfield application today, I would choose React. The reason for this is that react is better known, it is easie…

Vue is backed by one of the biggest companies in China. You need to do more research. Vue is more popular in China than React. I would say I would rather start a new an app using Vue because of the learning curve is a lot faster to pick up than React.

A non-trivial amount of info and discussion around Vue (esp. third-party packages) is in Chinese. Whether that's a plus or a minus depends on whether you understand the language.

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by elnygren »

Vue and React both seem a little too heavy in boilerplate. It's also interesting that Vue seems to think that mutable state is a good thing (well, vanilla React does have mutable state too...).

For the boilerplate (and large bundle size!) problem we have http://markojs.com that looks very interesting.

However, I think what we really might want is something closer to ClojureScript's re-frame (https://github.com/Day8/re-frame) and Reagent. However, Clojure and it's tools aren't really that great for beginners/juniors and/or people with little experience in FP and lisps.

Maybe in the near future we'll see a little bit more FP style JS solutions pop up?

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by TekMol »

k__ wrote: post #35

Things you're sacrificing when going away from React: 1. Stability. FB uses it for their main product, which is probably the biggest web app of them all, they pay many devs to work fulltime on it. People coming from Angular, who had to migrate all those breaking changes over the years know the struggle. 2. Options like React-Native, React-VR and co. React enables your devs to acquire a whole new range of possibilitie…

    Options like React-Native
When you use React for a web app, how close are you to turn it into a React Native app?

Re: Switching From React To Vue.js

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Post by forgottenacc57 »

sheeshkebab wrote: post #54
wereHamster wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

react-router, do you mean v1, v2, v3, or v4 (or perhaps v5 and v6, I haven't checked if there was a new release with breaking API changes during the past 12 hours).

Why downvote? Anyone sane can't seriously be thingking of using react-router in anything non throw away - the library gets rewritten from scratch every year and doesn't provide any backwards compatibility or migration paths. You might as well just write your own react-router implementation for every react project you work on.

Agreed. I need to switch from react-router. I think they are now making major changes for no good reason.
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