Choosing a framework be it angular, react, ember or vue is personal preference. I would say start with each and build something that utilise state management (todo list perhaps?) and see which style you are comfortable with.

If you wants to get employed, React is a wiser choice. It also helps you build native mobile apps with react-native . If you are building enterprise app with alot of client-side data, nothing beats Ember.js ember-data.

If you are like me who is prototyping light-weight startup and would like to move fast and missing your first front-end learning (angular 1), go with Vue.js . NativeScript-Vue is the binding to build mobile native apps with it.

I would first like to differentiate between two categories of front-end frameworks: JavaScript front-end frameworks (Angular, React, Vue) and CSS front-end frameworks (Bootstrap, Tailwind, Foundation).

Responsiveness is an aspect that deals mostly with CSS, and CSS frameworks such as the ones mentioned are focused on addressing this aspect, making it easy to use components in a standard and less bug-prone way when compared to writing CSS from scratch. This said, knowledge of CSS is very important for front-end development, as it is required to customize components provided by these frameworks, and allows you to create more customized and compelling experiences.

Choosing to use a CSS framework does not prevent you from using a JavaScript framework. The two are frequently used together. Usually, React, Vue and the other front-end JavaScript frameworks have their own implementations of these CSS frameworks, tailored to better integrate with the JavaScript frameworks themselves. The React community, for example, has React Bootstrap, and Material-UI, which are React implementations of popular CSS frameworks, among others.

In no way you are required to use JavaScript frameworks, but they tend to lower the barrier of writing apps by surrounding you with a component-based development process, which generally allows you to better organize code. It is usually better to allow yourself to feel the pain of not using a framework so you can understand what frameworks have to offer.

In any case, should you want to learn a JavaScript framework, I would suggest that you take the tour of each JavaScript framework, then try implementing a simple project, such as building a small blog application or a tic-tac-toe game, and try implementing it using different JavaScript frameworks. This should provide you with an overview of how things operate in each framework.

Also, I would like to add that the learning curve of Angular is generally considered much higher than the other JavaScript frameworks, so I would recommend that you avoid it for now unless you are sure that you would like to dive into it.

Personally, I have used Vue.js, React, Ionic, Angular, and I enjoyed the first two the most, especially React.

React might be a good option if you're considering a mobile app for the future, because of react native. Although, Vue.js has the easiest learning curve and offers a better developer ramp-up time. Vue.js is great to build SPAs, very clean and organized and you won't have a lot of long-term maintenance problems (like AngularJS, for example). Bootstrap can still be used, but with flexbox there's no need anymore.

I recommend React because of less memory occupant compare to Angular, but this will depend on your organisation flexibility. When you use React you need to import different libraries as per your need. On the other side angular is a complete framework.

Performance-wise I vote for react js as it loads up quickly and lighter on the mobile. You can make good PWA with SSR as well.

If you are new to all three react will be a good choice considering, react-native will be useful if you want to build cross platform mobile application today or tomorrow. If you are talking about bootstrap styling framework than it's a choice you can style ur components by ur self or use bootstrap 4.0 framework. The complete stack mentioned above is platform agnostic u can run it anywhere you want be it cloud or on-premise.

Coming from C# I think you’ll find Angular comfortable. If you were more node/ruby/web developer savvy I’d probably recommend React.

Angular comes with everything you need out of the box, it’s a bit more opinionated framework. React is a series of libraries that you can patch together to tweak exactly how you like to web dev.

Have you tried Angular or React? They are frameworks for creating single page WebApps where the DOM is updated on a single webpage, what this means is that your app only loads once and thereafter it is as smooth as a native experience. What you can do is build one menu interface and then have multiple apps all running in the same project. Google Docs is a good example of this. Angular is easier to manage, but personally a bit jarring to get into and understand, whereas React is a bit messier, but easier to pick up.

I think react easy and fast to learn for you.

I've found myself in the same scenario 2 years ago, I did the migration to Angular and the difference between both versions is huge! you are basically going to create the project from zero (again). If that is the case, I recommend React. The learning curve is smaller, it's easy to develop and maintain, and it's way better when writing specs. You could work on the migration project in parallel doing releases per feature and then replace the project when the migration is done.

I did this migration in 2016-2017 on a pretty large app. Search "migrating from angularjs to angular" and you'll find tons of advice. And some tools. We chose to upgrade based on route, where basically more of our routes were handled by Angular over time and less by AngularJS. The whole migration took about 18 months, the app continued to work fine, and eventually, it was all migrated.

Here are some tools that can help suggest a path forward. https://blog.angular.io/migrating-to-angular-fc9618d6fb04

Modern Angular is so wildly different from Angular.js, there's no reason to choose it over any other framework. If you're choosing a new framework, I recommend Vue.js which has very similar syntax and concepts, and an easy learning curve. Vue has the benefit of being very lightweight and incrementally adoptable.

Here's the official doc comparing Vue and Angular.js

I used Angular.js until the release of Angular 2. The frameworks were so wildly different I went out looking for something better. Angular 2+ is the most complex option - requires TypeScript, a build system (babel, webpack). Disclaimer - I did not try React or Ember. I found Vue.js easy to learn as it borrowed many concepts that originated in Angular.js - such as directives, filters, and much of the form handling approach (even ng-model is available as v-model). I've found Vue to be closer to Angular.js (esp. v1.5 which added components) that more modern versions of Angular!

More importantly, Vue.js is incrementally adoptable, and can be used without a build system. The Vue.js intro page embeds 7 entirely independent tiny Vue apps on the same HTML page!

This means you could embed a tiny Vue.js app inside your Angular.js app, and slowly swap out sections slice by slice, until the entire app has been replaced. A similar approach was used by Slack to incrementally migrate their entire app to modern React.

This approach can also be done when migrating to Angular 2 +. Check out episode 141 of Adventures in Angular for a discussion of this approach.

My personal pick would be Vue.js, but regardless of the framework you choose, incremental adoption is the way to go.

• UPDATE Turns out there's an entire ecosystem of tools for embedding components of one framework inside another - such as angular2react and react2angular

Moving from AngularJS to Angular is as hard as moving to any other tool because the only thing they share is the name-ish. React is my logical decision because for me it simpler due to its use of JavaScript. You don't have magic as with Angular. You use plain JavaScript to code, and things just work. The new Angular is a copy of React (mostly). And having to work with TypeScript makes things messier. You can migrate React to TypeScript, but if you have no experience, you don't need to use it. For me React is cleaner and simpler than Angular as "the new technology to use to migrate all your codebase". You can always leave your clients with the old app, and add a button to a new and shiny app in development, and ask them to try and give feedback. Doing this, you will find what's important for them, and which parts need to be prioritized instead of migrating all from a to z. It also helps your clients to learn the application step by step instead of having a sudden change to a new app that they don't totally know. Doing this you allow them to compare the old and the new one, and find their way around easily. Hope this helps you :)

I'd recommend React. This is because React is very easy to learn. Furthermore, you get to code your dynamic UI components like classes and objects which will make them reusable all through your project. I find that as being one of the best features React has. Also, you get speedy development with React due to its simplistic syntax and the sharing of data among components through props. Also it's backed by Facebook and the framework is easy to integrate with other applications.

React has a different mindset. React is about composition and state management. It's easier to build and compose components which for me speeds up the UI development. Plus, more features that aims for reusability and consistency of components and its state. Thus, I recommend React.

In my view, the upside of React is you're likely to find more existing, robust design systems (e.g. sets of components containing anything from buttons to datepickers) in the React ecosystem than Vue. UI frameworks aside, momentjs comes in when you want operate on the date(times) you get back from whatever datepicker you choose (e.g. date formatting, date match).

I've used both Vue.js and React and I would stick with React. I know that Vue.js seems easier to write and its much faster to pick up however as you mentioned above React has way more ready made components you can just plugin, and the community for React is very big.

It might be a bit more of a steep learning curve for your friend to learn React over Vue.js but I think in the long run its the better option.

I chose to use Vue.js a few years ago mainly for the easy learning curve. I have no experience with React, so I won't make any comparison here. Regarding available components, I never felt locked in because of Vue when looking for components. It happens that a component I wish to use is not available as a Vue component (and nobody published any Vue wrapper for it), but in such cases I was able to quickly hack a Vue wrapper component. In the end I don't think a decision to choose one framework over another should be made solely because of the number of components available. (And not all components in either framework is maintained, bug free, documented or easy to use)

I would also go with React. The learning curve can be a little more difficult but as soon as you got the concepts it's really easy to create things. As everybody has mentioned the React community is huge and it keeps growing, anything you may need for your project there are super high probabilities that you will find it.

React is great, Vue.js is also great. But I'm personally using React, because React is changing the way I look at how JavaScript should be. This is a really big plus for me. Vue is good, but it's just another alternative. Also, too many big companies are using React, that means you can trust it for big projects.

I'd have to concur that I'd advise React. In addition to the reasons mentioned, the developer pool is significantly larger (and also slightly more expensive) for React. In time, engineering costs will even out as more and more teams adopt it. The community support is fantastic, and the available components significant.

Both have their pro's and con's; however to agree what has been mentioned here before; Using Vue.js will be easier as it's learning curve isn't steep; plus learning Vue.js will teach you fundamentals which (in a sense) can be applied to React as well. Community support for React is indeed very big, but Vue.js is also still growing. Component wise, I wouldn't worry to much about that, writing your own components is also a good tool for learning a language.

Having developed in both Vue.js and React, I agree with your assessment of Vue. It does feel light and easier to understand and therefore learn. Seeing that Vue has some genetic roots with React, I would say start your friend out on Vue. If they need to learn React later, that should give them a good foundation. If you have a Pluralsight subscription, look for my course on Vue.js and feel free to use the demo project as a starting point.

Would start with Vue especially if you want to progress more quickly and don't want/need to spend time learning React just for the sake of it. You can always pick up React later if necessary. I would caution about using "more readily available React components" just because they exist.

Anything that interacts with the Internet, websites, applications, etc., while it may be more complex to build, will be easier to maintain in the long run. React offers more flexibility, a much larger support base for knowledge and opinion, and is just as stable asVue.

To make the best comparison in my opinion, think of React as the Android OS and Vue more like iOS. While Vue may be advantageous in some cases, it is limited by constricting parameters. On the other hand, while React may be more complex and incorporate more open-source/third-party constructs, it is supported by over 50,000 npm packages and allows for the use of JSX. Which I might add, once learned, becomes second nature to employ and offers more flexibility.

It all depends. Vue.js is smaller, and from what I saw (benchmarks) faster. It's also slightly more intuitive and easier to grasp. React is more popular, and the adoption rate is much higher.

Again, it all depends.

If I may, my personal choice would perhaps be either React or Svelte.

We did a comparison between React, Vue and Angular and while found each capable of supporting our needs, we ended up using VueJS because of its ease of use, the ability to use templates, large and growing community and good documentation. After developing on it for a around 4 months we re-evaluated and agreed that we had made the right choice and continue to migrate our products/platform to it.

I would recommend both of them since Vue is a UI library and helps you to design beautiful website while react allows you to handle backend problems like comment management and onspot reloading more efficiently also react includes useState and react is a framework while vue is a library

It is hard to say which is good. I've used both. Vue is easier. But I feel more comfortable with React. That is why I chose React.

VueJS hands down. Which components do you need? Have a look at Vuetify, mature project, plenty of components ready to plug and play. If on the other side you need more customization, have a look at tailwindcss. VueJS is much cleaner and IMO will overtake React soon. It's simply a better React.

Virtual dom and JSX. Vue is just a baby to the race. React has it's mobile platform version as react native . so it would be easy for you and you wont reinvent the wheel again for mobile apps.

As others have stated there are more canned components available for React, but your observation about it's complexity is an important one. There are architectural aspects of Vue.js that lead to cleaner more concise solutions. As React apps get bigger they become a little unwieldy. Depending on your requirements you need to weigh those competing concerns. Our team is using React, but I am beginning to question that choice as time goes on. Another consideration is that Vue.js is becoming more mature as we speak. Also as others join the project, react developers should be productive in Vue.js within days. Just my 2 cents...