Comment by midrus

I've used React extensively, and now I'm about into 1 year of Vue 2 with Nuxt after having switched jobs.

My gripes with Vue are:

- Despite they say it is not a "Python 2 to 3 like" situation, it is. Every library you find specifies if it is for Vue 2 or 3, some have versions for both, some are only for 2 and will never be upgraded to 3, others are just for 3.

- Vue doesn't have any spirit or ideas of its own. It just copies over every feature from every framework trying to be all to everyone, which leads to too many different ways of doing the same thing.

- There is a horrible culture of auto importing things (components, functions, ref sugar, etc) . This breaks tooling and editors, then they patch those to auto detect these tricks, then introduce a new one and everything breaks, then again..

- Many, many times I was trying to investigate a problem and you end up in a Github Issue which has part of the discussion in Chinese. Doesn't happen as much in official repos, but it happens in many of the third party libraries you end up needing anyway. Some libraries don't even have a readme in English.

- In the part of Europe I'm in, nobody wants to use Vue, so it is difficult to hire.

- Nuxt.js is terrible compared to Next.js. They're also in this "2 to 3" rewrite, and have been terrible at communicating. Probably our project at work will never move to Vue 3 and/or Nuxt.

- Community feels an order of magnitude smaller than react.

On the good site:

- It has a far, far, far better reactivity system than React. No need to manually track dependencies, memoize callbacks and components, etc.

- It is a lot more easy and intuitive, a lot less foot guns.

- It is a real framework, as you have an official router, state management solution, styling approach, etc. I love this.