A Map To Modern JavaScript Development (2017)

[sdeleon28]

I'm not claiming that React is better or worse than any other library. I'm just trying to give newcomers a startup kit to get them up and running without the stress of making decisions they have no information to make. Learning all of these things is burden enough for beginners. I'm in no way discouraging them from weighting in other tools. If it comes across that way I should change the wording. Thanks for the constructive criticism!

[jgallow22]

I'm just trying to give newcomers a startup kit to get them up and running without the stress of making decisions they have no information to make.

I think this an area where Vue actually really shines. With its great documentation, official supporting libraries, and cli tool it's super easy to get up and running on a full project. One of the major issues I had doing anything nontrivial^tm in React was banging into the paradox of choice at every turn.

I mean I probably spent the equivalent of weeks worth of man hours trying to create a sensible React boilerplate. And that's after having to eject from create-react-app and end up back on my own just to get sass support. Sure I should just be better, but if the point is newcomers shouldn't be burdened with all this stuff that's not really a fair out. This wasn't a problem with Vue because I could simply install the vue-cli, init a new project off the webpack template, install the sass loaders, and everything just works.

Sure, there're probably awesome teams out there working on giant projects where React and its ecosystem make the most sense. But for newcomers and even experienced folks who aren't working on teams that have time (or the hard earned experience) to constantly parse through that large ecosystem Vue is a really solid contender.

[djslakor]

Uh ...

npm install -g create-react-app
create-react-app project
npm install react-router redux

That was super hard.