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Is Vue.js a save choice?

4 points by koehr ↗ HN
We plan to rewrite our web-frontend completely into a shiny SinglePage app. We want it to support isomorphic rendering at some later stage, too.

Now I am personally very opinionated and would build on vue.js. But this choice has to be reasonable.

Angular and React are the biggest players in the field, mainly because they are backed by huge names like Google and Facebook. More or less everyone is using them and the communities are massive.

Vuejs is growing fast at the moment but it is still very new. I now wonder how I can savely argument, that Vue.js will be a good choice in the medium or long term (or not). What would you look for?

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afarrell
A framework is useful because once you learn it, you can apply that knowledge across a wide range of projects. Not only that, but once there is intro documentation for it, the knowledge imparted can help people be several miles down the road of understanding the structure of a many projects. For this reason, the biggest thing I look for in a framework is solid canonical introductory tutorials that help someone build a solid mental model of the framework. This means that even if the number of developers is currently small, it will grow fast enough that I won't worry about hurting my ability to hire down the road.

It is especially useful if the intro tutorial teaches automated testing. Then I'm going to be less worried that tests are an afterthought rather than something that is written alongside the feature.

jbardnz
I really like VueJS and I actually think it is a pretty safe choice. While it has been gaining a lot of momentum recently (especially in the Laravel community were it has become the default frontend framework), it has actually been around for well over 2 years. Evan talks about the stability of the project more here: http://blog.evanyou.me/2015/10/25/vuejs-re-introduction/

Another really important point is that Evan is able to work on this fulltime thanks to a really successful Patreon. This is super rare for a open source project but pretty much guarantees support for the project for the foreseeable future.

saluki
It's a pretty safe choice, Evan is working on it full time and it keeps getting better and better.
nfriedly
BTW, where you said "save" and "savely", you meant to say "safe" and "safely" ;)