Comment by andrewray

I've always heard good things about Vue from its users. I have to compare all Javascript frameworks to React, because to me React feels like the first framework that got it "right." The API of React is surprisingly thin. Looking at Vue templates, the syntax seems quite alien, halfway between Django and Angular:

    <th v-for="key in columns" @click="sortBy(key)" :class="{active: sortKey == key}">

And the API seems to needlessly separate HTML and Javascript, with some strange (to a newcomer) API calls:

    Vue.component('demo-grid', {     // moving away from JS classes
        template: '#grid-template',  // Why separate view code from view code?
        replace: true,               // what is this?

Has anyone heavily used React and Vue and have an argument for what this thicker API affords?