At my last job we did a comparison between Vue and React before rewriting a major frontend application.
We did a POC in both React/Vue and ended up using Vue mainly due to the following reasons:
Single File Components
Single file components (.vue files) is the best thing about Vue.
I understand this might be a personal preference, but we wanted to avoid CSS-IN-JS.
Our designer could churn out neat html/css, but was a beginner in Javascript.
With Vue's single file components, he could also hack parallely with us while iterating on html/css.
Standard / Official way of doing things
This again is a personal preference but Vuejs comes with a recommended way to do a majority of things.
Vuex(state management) and Vue-Router are provided/maintained by same Vue core team.
React at times can be overwhelming for beginnners, just because of the amount of choice available
Example:
Google Search for 'React CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=react+css+style] points to a bunch of links all of which link to valid solutions, but I have to go through a few of them before I get what I am looking for.
Similar search for 'Vue CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=vue+css+style] all top links lead to official documenation on vuejs.org.
Excellent documentation
Also, as a team we were primarily writing Angular 1 when we decided to choose a frontend framework for newer projects.
I feel this also made our transition to Vue easier vis a vis React
We did a POC in both React/Vue and ended up using Vue mainly due to the following reasons:
Single File Components
Single file components (.vue files) is the best thing about Vue. I understand this might be a personal preference, but we wanted to avoid CSS-IN-JS. Our designer could churn out neat html/css, but was a beginner in Javascript. With Vue's single file components, he could also hack parallely with us while iterating on html/css.
Standard / Official way of doing things
This again is a personal preference but Vuejs comes with a recommended way to do a majority of things. Vuex(state management) and Vue-Router are provided/maintained by same Vue core team.
React at times can be overwhelming for beginnners, just because of the amount of choice available
Example:
Google Search for 'React CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=react+css+style] points to a bunch of links all of which link to valid solutions, but I have to go through a few of them before I get what I am looking for.
Similar search for 'Vue CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=vue+css+style] all top links lead to official documenation on vuejs.org.
Excellent documentation
Also, as a team we were primarily writing Angular 1 when we decided to choose a frontend framework for newer projects. I feel this also made our transition to Vue easier vis a vis React