These are the things I find to be killer features of React and it's ecosystem:
- React Native (I know there's Weex but it's not production ready, nor as feature rich)
- Streaming server side rendering
- React Relay (GraphQL integration)
- JSX by default. VueJS pushes an Angular-esque template language where I have to learn new syntax, binding concepts, directives and conditional statements.
- Corporate backing
I've used React in very large projects, where these features have been fairly critical. React's licensing is odd but not odd enough for me to ditch it. I'd really hate to see the community churn once again on frontend libraries, but that's JavaScript for you I guess.
I wasn't aware VueJS had streaming server rendering (and I still can't find anything about it), but React has had it long before v16 via a library (https://github.com/aickin/react-dom-stream)
yea, Vue had it in its core along time ago. Hence another downfall of react... you end up downloading tons of 3rd party packages that Vue gives you by default.
i was in the same boat as you regards to syntax but in 10 mins you will grasp everything about vuejs.
of all the frameworks, vuejs has the simplest syntax to learn. its no where as complex as angular and way more elegant. also beats jsx in terms of making your code more cleaner and prettier. im never going back to jsx.
2) : is just a shorthand for v-bind (ie; v-bind:disabled="is_disabled()" is aliased by :disabled="is_disabled()"). and this basically allows you to run pure javascript code inside of it.
3) the only other syntax to know is, v-for and v-if, but thats pretty self explanatory i believe.
<h3 v-if="user.name">{{name}}</h3>
<h3 v-if="!user.name">What is your name?</h3>
<h3 v-if="user.role == 'admin" && user.name == 'james'>hello super user {{name}}</h3>
i like this approach more than JSX where you have several if else clauses mixed into your HTML. it's kind of like pattern matching if you like that sort of thing.
or you can simply do <h3>{{some_message()}}</h3> and just handle the logic inside the some_message() method.
1) v-if is not html. In html if you see <h3 ...> you immediately think, "there's a level-3 header element here". The thought "there's a level-3 header element here if..." is something new you have to learn for Vue.
2) Shorter is not always easier. For example, using quotes to delimit logical expressions makes it easy to make errors. See the misplaced quote here?
<h3 v-if="user.role == 'admin" && user.name == 'james'>hello super user {{name}}</h3>
> i was in the same boat as you regards to syntax but in 10 mins you will grasp everything about vuejs.
Not sure about the original poster, but I prefer react/jsx not because it's simpler, but it's more powerful - it's a simple extension to a full programming language. You can do whatever you want with it.
perhaps you might be thinking that you can't run raw js with vue? well you get js and more.
it's just less coding and boilerplate if anything.
vue also optimizes your reactive codes and is faster in many cases. react can get pretty slow and heavy if you don't know what you are doing and trying to debug those situations can get pretty hairy. otoh, i've not seen any similar issues with vue. what vue does with the bindings is really neat.
- React Native (I know there's Weex but it's not production ready, nor as feature rich)
- Streaming server side rendering
- React Relay (GraphQL integration)
- JSX by default. VueJS pushes an Angular-esque template language where I have to learn new syntax, binding concepts, directives and conditional statements.
- Corporate backing
I've used React in very large projects, where these features have been fairly critical. React's licensing is odd but not odd enough for me to ditch it. I'd really hate to see the community churn once again on frontend libraries, but that's JavaScript for you I guess.