I've used React full-time at work for a year and a half now, and I did a personal project in Vue for a while to try it out, before converting it to React.
There are some things I really, really hate about React. It is not kind or accommodating (Vue is both of these things), but it gives you control. I was head-over-heels for the first few days of using Vue; "breath of fresh air" is exactly the phrase I'd use. But the project I was using it for was an IDE of sorts, and eventually I just needed more control than it allowed for.
If someone told me they were going to build a basic website - not a web app - with React instead of Vue, I would laugh at them. Vue truly is a successor to jQuery for the reactive age. But for really complex applications, it's too "magical" in my opinion.
There are some things I really, really hate about React. It is not kind or accommodating (Vue is both of these things), but it gives you control. I was head-over-heels for the first few days of using Vue; "breath of fresh air" is exactly the phrase I'd use. But the project I was using it for was an IDE of sorts, and eventually I just needed more control than it allowed for.
If someone told me they were going to build a basic website - not a web app - with React instead of Vue, I would laugh at them. Vue truly is a successor to jQuery for the reactive age. But for really complex applications, it's too "magical" in my opinion.