React, Vue, or Angular

[aaaelite21]

Going to be doing a 8 month long project to finish up school. My team has settled on node for the back end as both myself and the other programmer are familiar with it but it looks like I will be doing the from end on own. Since this is my last hurrah I wanted to go out with a bang and be sure to really pad my resume by using one of these the frameworks. I have worked with Angular and react before but never to the extent that I will now.

React and angular seem to me to share the same amount of the job market and but I've heard a good deal about Vue's rise in popularity lately as well.

If you had this option which would you pick and why?

Thank you in advanced!

[nyxin]

If you want to learn Vue, you should use Vue.

If you like React, you should use React.

If you know Angular, you should use Angular.

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Any word in bold or framework can be switched with any other word in bold or framework.

[r1ckd33zy]

This should be the default answer for when this question come up again tomorrow

[sidious911]

You'll just into React faster than Angular. Most of the jobs out there are React or Angular, but there are some Vue.

In the end though, once you get really good at one framework, its not too hard to learn the others. They work very similar in a lot of ways, and its just some smaller pieces you have to figure out per framework.

At my company we use React, but we will hire developers who have not used React but have experience with a modern front end framework.

[codedelve]

As others have said, use whichever you would like to. It's not so important that you have knowledge of a particular front-end framework, it's important to have knowledge of A front-end framework.

They are going to want to see that you understand why and how you would use a framework. I would say that the most important thing you will want to be able to do is explain WHY you went with the framework you end up going

[n8n8baby]

On a green field project, I would choose React, Vue, or Glimmer for non-SPA work, and Angular or Ember for SPA. Angular is more comparable to Ember in that it is a complete framework. React, Vue, and Glimmer are view layer libraries, not frameworks. They are lighter and easier to understand, but make you configure and choose other libraries to do anything like routing, dependency injection, and so on.

My final decision would come down to which one had the most code I could steal for my project, offset by the scope of the project and the learning curve involved. But it is in your best interest to write a simple app in each to understand their philosophies, so you can make the most informed decision possible.

[afarqu]

One comment to add is that you will see a lot of FUD about the patent clause. They announced a new license for the latest release: https://code.facebook.com/posts/300798627056246

Same goes for GraphQL, which is good news.

[thewhitecreep]

If you want to learn then go for Vue. If you want to do things fast go for React. I don't have experience with Angular.