Adding Vue.js to Your Technology Stack

Choosing the right framework for your product is like buying your first house. You must make a decision that will affect you in the long term and that cannot simply be undone once you’re bored or just aren’t fond of it anymore. And all the while you need to be aware that once you make the investment, you won’t able to afford a new one anytime soon.

Even after you finally find a house you feel you’re ready to pull the trigger on, you still may have some reservations: you love the facade, but the backyard could be a bit bigger. You like the colors of the walls, but you’d prefer a slightly different shade. Plus, the kitchen kinda feels outdated. Well, let’s be honest—there simply isn’t a perfect house out there that would just have it all. Especially when it’s your first one. Even if you decided to build one from scratch, there would always, always be room (room, get it?) for improvement.

Most people who follow Monterail know that we personally favor Vue.js (as official Vue partners it would strange not to do do!) and we often suggest Vue.js to our new clients. However, no two products are the same, and we like making educated decisions that are unbiased by external factors.

In 2025, Vue is the second trendiest repository in JavaScript, receiving over 200,000 stars on Github, surpassing the numbers for Node. Major industry players such as Alibaba, GitLab, Sainsbury's, Codeship, and Baidu have embraced it, establishing Vue.js as one of the three leading contenders in the JavaScript ecosystem. There are obviously reasons for that, and we will discuss them in Chapter One. 

When you start working with it, Vue may, at first glance, seem like the perfect house you’ve been looking for. BUT. That’s right. There are always some “buts”—although, in this case, they become noticeable primarily when Vue is compared to other technologies, as Chapter Five covers.

Therefore, Vue.js features should be carefully weighed against your project's specific needs. It's essential to evaluate its pros and cons and assess how well it fits into your current stack.

Even though Vue.js might appear to be the ideal solution you've been seeking, there are always some considerations you must be aware of to make an informed decision.

Before making Vue.js a part of your architecture, we encourage you to explore this guide.

Before delving into the nuances, exploring the origins of Vue.js, and understanding its "reason for being," let's lay the groundwork with an overview.

Vue is primarily designed to craft user interfaces and single-page applications. Its focus on the view layer ensures developers can create compelling user interfaces with comparatively less effort than some alternatives. The hallmark of Vue.js lies in its incrementally adaptable architecture. This flexibility allows developers to seamlessly integrate Vue into their projects, tailoring the implementation to their specific needs without fully committing to Vue.js from the word go. Whether you want to enhance existing web pages with interactive components or build a large-scale application, the Vue.js ecosystem supports it. With routing, state management, and build tooling, Vue adapts to developers' requirements. 

“What’s all the buzz about?” you ask? Vue.js has been growing like crazy, and its rapid progress seems to be at no stop. And this is what makes it a one-of-a-kind solution. Vue is an approachable, performant, and versatile framework for building web user interfaces. With its impressive array of features, along with many others we have yet to explore, Vue.js can be recommended for a wide range of projects. 

If you’re thinking now that you can say the same things about numerous other libraries, you might be right. You can probably build your dream app with any of them and you will meet your goals. Your users will never know if your product is Vue-based or any other framework-based and let’s be honest—most of them don’t really care.

And yet choosing a framework is a hard task, because it will strongly influence your in-house production team (or your offshored team, if you prefer it that way).

So what are Vue’s main selling points that make developers and business owners select it as their technology of choice? What is so unique about it?

1. It’s community driven

Some skeptics may say that Vue is not a viable choice because it lacks the support from large tech corporations like Google and Facebook. This opinion is truly belittling to the community standing behind Vue. Since its very beginning, more than 455 people from all over the world have contributed to the Vue.js repository. The Vue community's actionsimpact the entire ecosystem because their initiatives led to the creation of framework-agnostic tools like Vite and Vitest, which, due to their quality, were very quickly adopted and are widely used beyond strictly Vue.

Evan You, the framework's creator, decided to dedicate 100% of his time to Vue, and he manages to do that thanks to his Patreon sponsors. The Vue.js core team also collects funding via OpenCollective to cover the costs of their work and other expenses and organize community events. 

2. It’s progressive

Vue.js is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, it has a rich, incrementally adaptable ecosystem that scales between a library and a full-featured framework. This means that Vue.js is a framework that you can progressively opt into.

Whether you scale your app up or down, it will work just as well for you and will stay flexible regarding tooling configuration, number of features, and team collaboration. For example, it's possible to begin with the core library for simple applications and gradually add more complex libraries like Pinia and Vue-router. This progressive nature makes Vue adaptable to various project sizes and types, from enhancing static HTML pages to powering complex web applications.

3. It’s easy to integrate

Vue.js is considered easy to integrate for several reasons. It works well with other libraries and can be integrated into projects using different technologies. It allows for gradual adoption, meaning you can start using Vue in small parts of an existing project without a complete rewrite. It can be added to a page via a simple script tag, just like that.

The ease of integration also stems from the fact that its’ core library is small and focused only on the view layer, which means it doesn't add much overhead to your project. Moreover, Vue doesn't force a strict application structure, allowing it to fit into various project setups easily. 

4. It has a smooth learning curve

Vue seems to be the first framework that makes it extremely easy to introduce new people into the project. Vue's syntax is straightforward and similar to standard HTML and JavaScript, making it accessible to developers. Even if they don’t have any prior experience with Vue.js but know JavaScript reasonably well, they can be productive in a matter of hours for a mid-sized project. 

On the other hand, we’ve got React, which requires some decent knowledge of JSX and probably css-in-js, since many examples use this approach. Angular’s learning curve is even steeper. Users need to familiarize themselves with many concepts before they can be productive. The framework’s focus on complex applications may contribute to its complexity. Therefore, it may not be the best choice for less experienced developers.

5. It’s component-based 

Vue's component-based architecture stands out–it breaks the application into small, independent components enabling developers to craft reusable custom elements. These elements can be woven into complex applications, fostering code reuse and maintainability. 

Vue extends standard HTML with directives (either built-in or user-defined) and a unique template syntax, allowing for a declarative approach to binding the rendered DOM to the Vue instance's data. Its reactivity system is designed to track dependencies during component rendering automatically. Thus, Vue efficiently updates and re-renders only the necessary components when the state changes, ensuring applications are both performant and responsive.

6. It enables time-efficient coding

This one is slightly related to the previous point. Vue.js is easy to start with and makes coding faster. The time from writing the first line of code to releasing your MVP will be shorter than in the case of other frameworks. It also allows you to use less code to achieve the same results, which means less time spent on development and better cost efficiency.

7. It’s flexible 

One of the main reasons behind Vue’s popularity and growth is the amazing flexibility of the framework. According to Vuejs.org, “Vue is much less opinionated than Angular, offering official support for a variety of build systems, with no restrictions on how you structure your application. Many developers enjoy this freedom, while some prefer having only one Right Way to build any application.”

Developer’s experience is one thing but Vue’s flexibility translates into fulfilling unique business requirements. Its versatility makes it suitable for various projects, from sophisticated enterprise applications to specialized tools for niche markets. 

8. It has world-class documentation 

Vue.js documentation deserves some special attention since it quickly became one of the biggest Vue.js advantages. It is written in a clear, concise manner that's easy for both beginners and experienced developers to understand. Besides covering all aspects of the framework, from basic concepts to advanced features, in great detail, many sections include live, editable code examples that allow readers to experiment with concepts in real time.

Have you seen the guide section? It provides detailed, practical tutorials that walk users through building applications. And of course, the docs are frequently updated to reflect the latest changes in the framework.It is special, isn’t it? Moreover, you can access it in docs! There’s an interactive tutorial that allows you to write some code in the browser and learn various core fundamentals about the framework.

As a matter of fact, Vue documentation is now also available in Polish thanks to the Monterail team who delivered it in March 2025.

As a project, Vue.js has come a long way to become what it is today. It has grown from a small experiment into a mature framework that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers all over the world.

Significant Events in Vue.js History

The first Vue commit is dated June 27, 2013. At that time, it was still called “Seed.” The first name stuck for nearly six months before it was eventually changed to Vue in early December 2013. The first public release (0.8.0), however, was unveiled only in February 2014. At the time, Vue was a library that only focused on the View layer of the MVC architectural paradigm.

Several important aspects of Vue made it “click” with developers. The template syntax followed a style similar to AngularJS and a component-based architecture introduced by React, thus creating a smooth bridge between the two mindsets.

The JavaScript community became increasingly interested in Vue. Still, a year later, when the Laravel community (gathered around this popular PHP framework) first discovered it, Vue took off. A couple of months later, the long-awaited 1.0 version was finally released. This was a groundbreaking step for the library.

In the meantime, the community saw the release of vue-router (August 18th, 2015), vuex (November 28th, 2015) and vue-cli (December 27th, 2015) . These libraries marked the transformation of Vue from a View-layer library into what we today call the Progressive Framework.

In April 2016, we saw the release of the much-anticipated version 2.0—a complete rewrite of the framework that introduced several new concepts, such as the Virtual DOM and Server-Side Rendering capabilities. However, the API remained virtually unchanged, so the migration was smooth. The official vue-migration-helper tool also helped the process.

Vue 2 reached end-of-life on December 31st, 2023. It no longer receives new features, updates, or fixes. However, it is still available on all existing distribution channels (CDNs, package managers, Github, etc.).

One of the biggest releases was 3.2, „Quintessential Quintuplets” in August 2021 which became the default version six months later. Vue 3.2 has continued to improve performance and add features for Single File Components. The latest stable version of Vue.js is Vue 3.5, nicknamed "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann." This minor release maintains full compatibility with previous versions while adding new features and internal improvements.

A significant achievement in this version is the complete refactoring of Vue's reactivity system, which delivers better performance and reduces memory usage by 56% without changing any behaviors. This refactoring also fixes issues with stale computed values and memory leaks during server-side rendering.

Additionally, Vue 3.5 optimizes how reactivity is tracked in large, deeply nested arrays, resulting in performance improvements of up to 10x in certain scenarios.

Vue.js 3, also known as Vue 3, is the third version of the popular JavaScript framework Vue.js, which is used for building user interfaces. Released in September 2020, Vue 3 has become the default version of Vue.js as of February 2022.

Vue 3 introduces several new features and improvements over Vue 2:

Performance


Vue 3 is faster, smaller, and more maintainable than Vue 2. It offers code that is more efficient and maintainable while still being lightweight. Vue 3 also comes with many performance improvements out of the box, such as strategic code splitting for fine-tuning performance, particularly for large-scale applications.

Composition API


One of the most significant changes in Vue 3 is the introduction of the Composition API, a new API for a function-based approach to writing components. This API is inspired by React Hooks and lets developers encapsulate logic into "composition functions" and reuse that logic across components.

Improved reactivity system


Vue 3 has a more advanced reactivity system than Vue 2. For example, computed properties in Vue are a go-to choice for caching, as they are recalculated only when their dependencies change, minimizing redundant computations.

Multiple v-models

In Vue 2, only one v-model could be used in a single component. However, Vue 3 allows passing multiple v-models to components by specifying their names.

Better TypeScript support

Vue 3 offers better TypeScript integration right from the scaffolding, providing type safety.

New features

Vue 3 introduces several new features such as Teleport, Fragments, Suspense, and others.

Despite these improvements, Vue 3 maintains backward compatibility with Vue 2 to a large extent. This means that many of the key concepts from Vue 2 are still applicable in Vue 3.

Vue's rich ecosystem, featuring official tools like Vue Router, Pinia, and Vue Server Renderer, alongside a vast array of community-contributed plugins, establishes Vue as a comprehensive solution for front-end development. This ecosystem enriches Vue's capabilities and ensures it remains a versatile framework adaptable to various development scenarios.

It’s worth mentioning that apart from the community projects, the Vue Core Team also maintains several official libraries, such as vue-router, Pinia (state management), vue-rx, and vuex-observable (for RxJS), as well as tools like Vitepress, Vitest, vue-cli, vue-server-renderer, vue-loader, language-tools, vue-migration-helper and many more! All in all, Vue.js owns 123 official repositories.

Why is this important, you ask?

Because it allows you to progressively opt-in to use other core libraries that transform Vue into a full-fledged framework like Angular or Ember, with the guarantee that it will work seamlessly. However, you can always switch parts of it for other unofficial solutions if that is what your project requires.

Another benefit of the official supporting libraries is that they always represent the highest quality and offer long-term support and compatibility with Vue itself.

As one would expect, a massive and highly involved community such as Vue’s comes with many community projects. And not just small, focused libraries, we’re talking large-scale projects here.

Core Framework Features

• Vue Router - Enables navigation between views/pages with features like nested routes, dynamic routing, and route guards

• Vue Server Renderer (VueSSR) - A built-in feature of Vue.js that enables server-side rendering of Vue applications, allowing the initial page load to be processed on the server and sent to the client as HTML.

• Pinia - Intuitive, type-safe, light and flexible state management solution that works with Vue 3's Composition API

• Vite - Next-generation frontend build tool that offers extremely fast cold starts and hot module replacement

Official Supporting Libraries

• Vue DevTools - Browser extension that provides deep inspection of Vue applications, component state, and time-travel debugging

• Vue Test Utils - Library of utility functions that simplify testing Vue components by providing methods to mount, interact, and assert

• VuePress - Static site generator optimized for technical documentation with Vue-powered theming system

• Nuxt - Metaframework building upon Vue.js that automates common development tasks and supports both SSR and static generation as well as complex hybrid rendering strategies

• Vitest is a fast Vite-based testing framework designed specifically for Vue and JavaScript/TypeScript applications. 

• VueUse is a collection of essential Vue Composition API utility functions that provide ready-to-use composables for common tasks and features.

Popular Third-party Tools

• PrimeVue - Comprehensive UI component library for Vue.js offering over 90 customizable, accessible components with various themes. 

• Nuxt UI - Modern UI component library designed specifically for Nuxt applications that provides a set of ready-to-use components with a focus on developer experience and customization. 

• Vuelidate - lightweight model-based validation library for Vue.js that allows for simple, powerful form validation without dependencies.

• Vuetify - Polished collection of Material Design components with comprehensive documentation and regular updates

• Quasar - Feature-rich framework that allows building responsive websites, PWAs, and native mobile apps from a single codebase

• Vue Element/Element Plus - UI component library designed specifically for Vue with a focus on consistency and customization

• VeeValidate - Template-based validation library that makes form validation declarative and painless

Development Tools

• ESLint plugin for Vue - Linting utility that catches common errors and enforces code style in Vue single-file components

• TypeScript support - Official typing system integration that provides enhanced IDE support and compile-time type-checking

• Volar - Language support extension that provides advanced TypeScript support and superior performance for Vue applications

Nuxt: The Easy Way to Develop Vue.js Applications with SSR Support

Nuxt is one of the most significant roles in the Vue.js ecosystem. This open-source framework was designed to streamline the creation of full-stack web applications and websites using Vue.js. It provides best-practice solutions to standard development challenges like routing, server-side rendering, code splitting, and more, allowing developers to accelerate the development process.

Advantages of Nuxt:

• Many Rendering Models. The list includes the most well-known SSR, but also SSG and ESR. What's more, it is easy to embrace a hybrid approach and tailor a custom solution with mixed rendering strategies.

• Automatic code splitting. This option automatically splits code into smaller chunks, resulting in faster page loads.

• Simplified configuration. Nuxt handles much of the setup and configuration, allowing developers to focus more on building custom app features.

• SEO Improvement. With its server-side rendering capabilities, Nuxt makes the app more accessible to search engine crawlers, positively impacting SEO.

• Development speed. Nuxt accelerates and facilitates the development process, making it ideal for building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product).

• Vue 3 compatibility. Nuxt has been updated to take advantage of the new features in Vue 3, such as better performance, the Composition API, and enhanced TypeScript support.

• Automatic routing. Nuxt automatically generates routes based on the file structure, simplifying the routing configuration.

• Ability to have a full-fledged server with backend API and FE application from one single codebase

Other solutions in the Vue ecosystem worth mentioning:

Although Nuxt is the best-known and most popular solution, it is not the only one capable of supporting the development of Vue.js applications. There’s also the Quasar Framework, which helps with the development of hybrid mobile and desktop applications.

• Several very popular UI frameworks, like Element-UI and Vuetify, provide dozens of unified UI components to bootstrap your application.

• Vue also gets more and more support from mobile development frameworks like NativeScript and OnsenUI by Monaca.

• The Vue Use, an impressive collection of essential Vue Composition Utilities, provides over 200 functions that work for both Vue 3 and Vue 2.

• Vue-Threejs is a comprehensive resource for devs looking to integrate 3D graphics into their Vue applications using the Three.js library.

• PrimeVue is a versatile and comprehensive UI component library for Vue.js. It allows developers to choose from over 400 ready-to-use UI blocks that can be copied and pasted to build applications quickly or create their own.

• Nuxt UI is a user interface library tailored explicitly for use with the Nuxt framework. It provides a comprehensive collection of fully styled and customizable UI components. 

Vue already has everything your app will probably need. However, I see more and more libraries being published each week, so it’s impossible to keep track of all of them. Many of those libraries are on this list of awesome things related to Vue.js.

It is worth checking the application Vue.js Examples. This resource provides a collection of Vue.js examples. It contains various user interface (UI) components, tools, and applications built with Vue.js. The website also features real-world applications developed using Vue.js, demonstrating the vibrancy and diversity of the Vue.js community.

The Community 

The Vue.js community is one of the most engaged and rapidly growing open-source communities in the JavaScript ecosystem. With over 200,000 stars on GitHub, Vue.js has consistently ranked among the most-starred JavaScript frameworks. The community includes more than 450 active contributors who have helped develop the core framework and its ecosystem.

The community offers extensive learning resources created by community members, from blog posts to video courses. This bottom-up growth model has helped Vue maintain its developer-friendly focus while evolving based on real-world user needs. You can listen to the Vue.js podcasts: DejaVue, Views on Vue , Enjoy the Vue, or take part in meetups and conferences. 

High-quality tutorials, insightful articles, and all the libraries I could ever think of now tend to appear daily. It’s insane! And that’s not all—the Vue community is bolstered with a thriving forum and a Discord channel, with thousands of developers active on both of these outlets each day. Additionally, we can see that a growing number of companies across the globe are increasingly betting on Vue, following the rapidly growing interest of their developers.

The Backing

Many people point out that no large company backs Vue in the same way Angular or React do, and they act like this is a bad thing. However, Vue truly embodies the spirit of open-source, similar to jQuery, Babel, or webpack, which are among the most reliable tools in the JavaScript world. Moreover, the tools created by the Vue community are not limited to Vue, and the greatest examples are Vite and Vitest.

Vite, built within the Vue ecosystem, is usable with other UI frameworks. The frontend community has widely embraced it, inspiring the creation of numerous plugins, boilerplates, and templates. Several popular frameworks have also adopted it as their recommended build tool, extending its popularity far beyond the Vue ecosystem.

Vitest, on the other hand, is a unit testing framework for Vue applications. It is created and maintained by members of the Vue and Vite teams. Vitest is compatible with the Jest API and offers unique features that make it a preferred choice for testing Vue applications. It uses the Vite dev server to transform files during testing, thereby eliminating the redundancy involved in using testing frameworks that require their own configuration.

Thus, Vue's open-source nature can be a significant advantage, as the project does not have to follow the needs of a particular company and can instead focus on what the community needs.

However, the focus on developer experience goes far beyond webpack and is present in every aspect of the library, from its ease of use through smooth integration to top-notch documentation and overall scalability.

You’ve probably seen dozens of those 'Vue.js vs. React vs. Angular—the ultimate final supreme dance-off you must read' articles. Nevertheless, that comparison neatly (but not exactly) aligns with what we’d like to explore in this section. Thus, we won’t be putting forward any original thoughts, as everything has already been said online; instead, we will condense all these think pieces scattered across the Internet into a comprehensive, concise chapter that will offer you a complete look at 'The Big Three.'

Stability

The three major frameworks each take different approaches to maintaining stability. React.js, backed by Facebook, demonstrates exceptional stability with rare breaking changes and maintains backward solid compatibility, making it an exceptionally reliable choice for long-term projects. 

While managed by a smaller team, Vue.js has proven highly stable with careful version transitions and well-documented changes, especially since Vue 3 has matured as the default version. 

Angular, supported by Google, follows a more structured approach with predictable six-month release cycles and automated migration tools, though it tends to introduce breaking changes more frequently than React or Vue. While all three frameworks are production-ready and suitable for enterprise use, React currently stands out for its particularly conservative approach to changes, making it the top choice when stability is the primary concern.

Flexibility

Through its minimalist core library approach, React.js provides exceptional flexibility. Developers can freely choose additional libraries and tools for state management, routing, and other functionalities according to their specific needs. It is ideal for almost any platform, whether web or native development.

Vue.js strikes a thoughtful balance between flexibility and structure. It offers official solutions for common needs while remaining adaptable enough to accommodate alternative tools and approaches when desired. Whether you need to build a complex enterprise app or a highly tailored solution for a niche market, Vue.js can adapt to meet your business goals. 

Angular, in contrast, is a more comprehensive and opinionated framework with built-in solutions for most development needs. This makes it less flexible but provides a standardized approach that can benefit larger teams and enterprise projects. 

Backing & general popularity

As mentioned briefly in previous sections, regarding corporate backing and ecosystem stability, React, which is backed by Facebook, offers firm support and extensive resources. Angular can also count on corporate backing from Google. Vue.js, on the other hand, is the only one without such support. Despite that, crowdfunding and community support have proven remarkably successful, demonstrating that corporate backing isn't always necessary for widespread adoption and stability. Let’s look at how “the Big Three” looks in numbers. 

React.js:

• Backed by Facebook/Meta

• GitHub stats: ~230k stars

• ~40% market share in web development

Vue.js:

• Community-driven, led by Evan You

• GitHub stats: ~210k stars

• ~25% market share in web development

Angular:

• Backed by Google

• GitHub stats: ~96k stars

• ~20% market share in web development

Documentation

If you’ve heard anything about Vue, you’re aware of its great documentation. There, the creators describe in a clear and accessible way everything you need to know, taking you step-by-step through solutions. You’ll also gain insight into Vue’s ecosystem and scaling options. Vue’s clear syntax compliments the usefulness of the documentation. Additionally, you get an official style guide, which saves developers a lot of frustration when changing projects

React.js is a strong competitor that maintains well-organized documentation with extensive resources and frequent updates. However, it can sometimes be challenging for beginners since it assumes existing JavaScript knowledge and requires additional resources for ecosystem tools.

Angular’s documentation is known for its complexity and can be pretty overwhelming. In 2016, the documentation was overhauled to be more user-friendly, but diving into chapters, subchapters, and sub-subchapters can still confuse many developers. The documentation tries its best to guide the user through the development process, but the steep learning curve of Angular compounds the issue.

Simplicity

Vue.js demonstrates simplicity through its gentle learning curve and intuitive template syntax. It seamlessly integrates with CDN or CLI libraries and only a minimal setup is required to start working with Vue.js. HTML and JavaScript developers should have no issues when transitioning to Vue–they can begin development in a matter of hours. 

While conceptually simple, with its focus on components and one-way data flow, React.js can initially challenge developers. The JSX syntax and the need to understand JavaScript fundamentals deeply might be a hard nut to crack. Regarding setup and configuration, React is generally simple to start but requires additional routing and state management configuration. 

Angular presents the steepest learning curve of the three. It requires developers to understand TypeScript, decorators, and numerous built-in concepts like dependency injection and modules, which makes it less simple to pick up but provides powerful tools for complex applications.

Performance

Vue has great performance and the deepest memory allocation, but all these frameworks are really pretty close to each other when compared to particularly slow or fast frameworks like Inferno. Going into details, both Vue.js and React utilize a Virtual DOM, allowing for efficient updates of only the specific changed components. This process saves time and computing resources, which is particularly important for applications with complex user interfaces. However, it’s worth noting that the latest version of Vue introduced significant performance optimizations such as improved tree shaking, faster rendering times, and reduced memory usage.

Angular, despite its larger size, delivers robust performance through ahead-of-time compilation and efficient change detection. Due to its comprehensive nature, though, it may have slightly slower initial load times.

Scalability

Although some still say Vue is less appropriate than React when dealing with large systems, it’s time to debunk this myth for good. Vue is a progressive framework that can adapt to multiple environments. It can be added to an existing multi-page application to make it more interactive, but thanks to the state-of-the-art server-side rendering capabilities, it can just as well be used to build large-scale single-page applications or even universal apps. 

React, because of its impressive community, has a lot to offer. It can build multi-page apps and single-page ones. The React’s CLI comes out a bit poorer than Vue’s. Anyway, React is immensely useful for building scalable web apps (look at Facebook).

Just as Vue and React are purpose-built for creating interactive web apps, Angular aims primarily to be scalable. Its component-based structure can be further optimized using feature modules. This goes a long way when building huge apps. Furthermore, dependency injections in Angular allow you to design apps that can be easily extended or have their functionalities refactored.

Coding speed

Coding speed is important when working in a fast-paced environment, which means often jumping into new projects or cooperating with external contractors. Vue gives developers much flexibility by working with already-known preprocessors for HTML and CSS–you can simply start writing code after a minimal introduction to Vue. What’s React’s position here? It maintains fast code execution through its virtual DOM implementation and efficient reconciliation algorithm. Average runtime execution is similar in both Vue and React. Although Angular is very competitive, the amount of unnecessary syntax required to do simple things puts it last in this group.

However, it’s hard to assess the real-world code speed. It can vary significantly based on the application complexity, server performance, browser capabilities, etc. 

Job market

React is the second most widely used frontend framework globally, with 40% of professional developers worldwide declaring they use it in their work. It is dominant in North American markets yet proliferating in Asian markets, particularly India and Singapore. We can also observe React’s increasing adoption in emerging tech markets in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The framework's popularity translates into thousands of job offers from junior to senior positions. The React.js job market remains robust and has a positive outlook for the foreseeable future, with a continued strong demand projected.

Vue.js is still among the top most popular frontend frameworks globally–used by approximately 15% of professional developers. It excels in Asian markets and has a strong presence in China, Japan, Singapore, and Southeast Asia. However, when looking at popular Vue.js job boards, you will find offers from all over the world–Europe and the US taking the lead. Although there might be fewer Vue.js job positions available when looking at raw numbers, one needs to remember that there are also fewer Vue.js developers than React’s on the market. 

Angular is mainly used as an enterprise-level frontend framework, with 17% of professionals declaring that they are using it in their development. Therefore, in most cases, you can expect job offers from the big companies sector. This is evident in enterprise-heavy markets such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom (especially the financial sector), and Eastern/Mid-European countries. 

Popular apps examples

Angular: Upwork, The Guardian, iStock, PayPal, YouTube

React: Facebook, Netflix, Instagram, WhatsApp, Dropbox

Vue.js: GitLab, Codeship, Alibaba, Nintendo, Sainsbury’s, Livestorm 

When we were working on the State of Vue.js Reports we had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing some of the companies listed above. These conversation ultimately produced many case studies which offer a substantial body of evidence proving that Vue is a mature technology, used for commercial purposes by companies of various shapes and sizes.

All companies we interviewed had faced the challenge of choosing the right framework, and they all decided to go with Vue—even though they were in different stages of growth and had different goals. For more detailed case studies, visit the latest State of Vue.js Report 2025.