VUE VS REACT: WHICH JS FRAMEWORK IS BETTER?

COMPARISON BETWEEN VUE VS REACT

#1. VUE VS REACT – DEVELOPMENT SPEED

As per the survey, Vue and React JS are particularly similar in the speed of development, since there are many libraries, frames and additional packages that help you create the web application quickly. It all depends on the coding experience of developers and the skills that allow leaning towards React JS or Vue, but in reality, the time estimates for similar tasks are, for example, the same.

Both Vue and React JS are the same in development speed.

#2. VUE VS REACT – COMMUNITY SUPPORT & POPULARITY

As per the data on StackOverflow, there are approx. 115.900 questions within #reactjs. In addition to it, about 50.000 npm packages are available for React.js developers. While there are about 27.000 questions on StackOverflow within #vue.js and about 14.000 npm packages available for Vue js developers.

React JS community is much bigger than that for Vue JS. In fact, React is the most popular JavaScript library with great support, a large knowledge base, and community.

#3. VUE VS REACT – COST

The development cost depends on various factors, such as the experience of the developer and the level of job, location, etc., so it can vary a lot. To have some numbers in mind, we can consider the average cost of the Codementor platform to Vue and React JS.

Considering the average cost, ReactJS developers are a little bit costly than Vue developers.

#4. VUE VS REACT – MATURITY STANDARDS

If you use immature tools for project development then it may involve certain risks like vulnerabilities or bugs. It will not have a big community to resolve your issues on time. But Vue, as well as React, has huge community support.

React JS was developed and launched by Facebook in 2013 and is still being implemented in its own products such as WhatsApp, Instagram. It is one of the most popular JS frames on GitHub with around 117,500 stars.

On the other hand, Vue JS was introduced in February 2014 by Evan You, a former creative technologist at Google. Evan was responsible for the UI / UX prototypes and creative experiments at Google Creative Lab in 2012-2014 and was working with React and Angular. Till date, Vue is also one of the most popular frameworks to adopt in web development with 122,000 stars on GitHub.

Both Vue and React JS have a mature history, great support, and popularity among web developers’ community.

#5. VUE VS REACT – FLEXIBILITY

Vue JS is a dynamic framework that utilizes the most basic tooling for creating an application. It offers a number of functionalities as listed below:

• Vue Router for app’s URL management
• Vuex for state management
• Provide Vue JS Server-Side Renderer for server-side rendering

On the other hand, React JS does not offer any functionality for state management. You have to use Redux as a state management tool. Moreover, MobX is also much popular as React JS associate. React router is also a third-party one and not an official package.

Vue is more intuitive than React JS both for small as well as large applications.

#6. VUE VS REACT – PERFORMANCE

For checking the performance, you need to turn to js-framework-benchmark that can help to compare both. For example, React JS consumes 187.6 ± 4.3 ms for creating 1000 rows after the page loaded while Vue JS consumes 169.2 ± 3.6 ms. React JS take 19.6 ± 4.7 ms to swap 2 rows on a 1K table (with 5 warmup iterations) while Vue JS 21.8 ± 4.5 ms to do the same thing.

React has excellent performance, but both Vue and React are quite close, compared to particularly slow or especially fast development tools.

#7. VUE VS REACT – MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT

In mobile app development, React Native helps React developers build a mobile application. It is a framework for creating cross-platform iOS and Android applications using JavaScript. It appeared in early 2015 and is based on React. It does not use WebView and HTML technology, but the native components have links in JS and are wrapped in React. In fact, iOS support for React Native is better than Android, but the dynamics of Android support is quite promising.

On the opposite side, Vue JS is paired with NativeScript (NS) that allows you to create cross-platform applications using XML, CSS, JavaScript. NativeScript solves the same problem as React Native mentioned above, but they have some differences.

React Native is much more popular and utilizable in the developer’s community that means a bigger amount of ready-made solutions are available for mobile development.