Considering boarding the Vue hype train but I'm left wondering: will it be worth it, or am I just wasting my time? React already has a firm hold in the industry it seems, and I'm just not sure if Vue would be able to top it. I'm curious if anyone really involved in the industry would be able to tell me their thoughts on the rise of Vue and if it'll be able to persist like React has.
Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#2VueJS does not have the backing of Facebook and cannot compete on that issue alone.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#3Nope because although VueJS is simpler than angular2, it but makes a lot more assumptions (and thus lockins) to the user than React. The way best practices evolves in React doesn't happen so easily in vuejs ecossystem, even less in the angular2.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#4VueJS does not have the backing of Facebook and cannot compete on that issue alone.
How does that matter? There are countless historical examples where larger organizations with plenty of funding lost to smaller opponent.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#5Let me share a "contrarian" view. People think react can't be beat because they have Facebook behind them and tons of people are working on it with tons of funding. But I think that may be the reason why it may go down one day.
Facebook is not doing this for complete charity. At the moment their interest is aligned with react being open source but you never know when that will change. And when that happens, the artificial illusion of support will go away.
I'm not just pulling this out of nowhere, I actually use both react and vue, and think react ecosystem is too convoluted. It's a matter of opinion but I don't think it's just me who feels that way.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#6Vuejs just wants to be a web frontend framework. Reactjs wants to be a common way of building apps across Web, Android and iphone. Both have different goals targeting different usecases.
Vuejs might do well for webapps due to its simplicity alone.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#7Let me share a "contrarian" view. People think react can't be beat because they have Facebook behind them and tons of people are working on it with tons of funding. But I think that may be the reason why it may go down one day. Facebook is not doing this for complete charity. At the moment their interest is aligned with react being open source but you never know when that will change. And when that happens, the artif…
That's one of the main reasons I decided to go with Vue, I don't trust Facebook. I also didn't like the fact FB could take away your right to use their framework if they didn't like what you were making with it (e.x. anything facebook sees as a threat).
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#8VueJS does not have the backing of Facebook and cannot compete on that issue alone.
How does that matter? There are countless historical examples where larger organizations with plenty of funding lost to smaller opponent.
Ah, like how babel was able to compete with typescript despite typescript being funded by Microsoft and babel by community efforts
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#9Vuejs just wants to be a web frontend framework. Reactjs wants to be a common way of building apps across Web, Android and iphone. Both have different goals targeting different usecases. Vuejs might do well for webapps due to its simplicity alone.
Vue.js is not alone. Weex has already support Vue.js. Developers now can use Vue.js to write mobile apps.
[1] http://weex.apache.org [2] https://github.com/alibaba/weex/releases/tag/v0.10.0
Re: Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
#10I am no expert, but I chose React. It has a massive following, and will probably live much longer than the code that I write today.