Start small, with a Vuejs project, and put away React.
i liked vuejs. I was able to go from start->completing a project much quicker than with React. That's because with react you have to also learn the entire ecosystem so that includes learning react-router, redux (or one of the 100 alternatives), webpack, etc. etc.
However, The biggest annoyance for me was getting the syntax/code formatting on sublime 3. That's what kept me from enjoying working in react. I decided to stop being lazy and configured it all to play nicely and things like react-create-app make it much more pleasant than spending all your time stuck on tooling instead of creating.
Also there is a job market for react and a good future ahead. There's no worry about react funding since facebook actively works on it. Vue is mostly donation/contributions and heavily relies on one individual. I think React has more of a learning curve but is the better bet long term.