React.js Boilerplate vs Vue.js: What are the differences?
Developers describe React.js Boilerplate as "🔥 Quick setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps". Quick setup for new performance orientated, offline–first React.js applications featuring Redux, hot–reloading, PostCSS, react-router, ServiceWorker, AppCache, FontFaceObserver and Mocha. On the other hand, Vue.js is detailed as "Reactive Components for Modern Web Interfaces". Vue.js is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
React.js Boilerplate and Vue.js can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by React.js Boilerplate are:
- Using react-transform-hmr, your changes in the CSS and JS get reflected in the app instantly without refreshing the page. That means that the current application state persists even when you change something in the underlying code! For a very good explanation and demo, watch Dan Abramov himself talking about it at react-europe.
- Redux is a much better implementation of a flux–like, unidirectional data flow. Redux makes actions composable, reduces the boilerplate code and makes hot–reloading possible in the first place. For a good overview of redux, check out the talk linked above or the official documentation!
- Babel is a modular JavaScript transpiler that helps to use next generation JavaScript and more, like transformation for JSX, hot loading, error catching etc. Babel has a solid ecosystem of offical preset and plugins.
On the other hand, Vue.js provides the following key features:
- Reactivity
- Components
- Modularity
React.js Boilerplate and Vue.js are both open source tools. Vue.js with 143K GitHub stars and 20.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React.js Boilerplate with 22.9K GitHub stars and 4.59K GitHub forks.