| Vue.js | React |
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| How you write it | HTML-based templates with directives, close to what front-end markup developers already know. | JSX: HTML inside JavaScript, flexible and very expressive. |
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| Incremental adoption | Designed for it: mount it on one section of an existing page and it coexists with the rest. | Possible too, though it’s more often used for the entire app. |
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| Official pieces | Routing (Vue Router) and state (Pinia) maintained by the Vue team itself. | Just the library; routing and state come from third parties or a framework. |
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| Pages that need to rank | Nuxt, Vue’s server-rendering framework. | Next.js, the React framework behind our published client sites. |
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| Ecosystem | Large and active; Laravel ships it as one of its starter kits. | The broadest in front-end development: more libraries and a bigger hiring pool. |
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| Best for | Modernizing existing systems in stages and teams coming from HTML. | New applications, large teams and projects that lean on many libraries. |
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Vue.js
- How you write it
- HTML-based templates with directives, close to what front-end markup developers already know.
- Incremental adoption
- Designed for it: mount it on one section of an existing page and it coexists with the rest.
- Official pieces
- Routing (Vue Router) and state (Pinia) maintained by the Vue team itself.
- Pages that need to rank
- Nuxt, Vue’s server-rendering framework.
- Ecosystem
- Large and active; Laravel ships it as one of its starter kits.
- Best for
- Modernizing existing systems in stages and teams coming from HTML.
React
- How you write it
- JSX: HTML inside JavaScript, flexible and very expressive.
- Incremental adoption
- Possible too, though it’s more often used for the entire app.
- Official pieces
- Just the library; routing and state come from third parties or a framework.
- Pages that need to rank
- Next.js, the React framework behind our published client sites.
- Ecosystem
- The broadest in front-end development: more libraries and a bigger hiring pool.
- Best for
- New applications, large teams and projects that lean on many libraries.
General comparison as of October 2026. Vue 2 reached end of life on December 31, 2023; any new project should start on Vue 3.