Best tools are the ones that are appropriate for solving a given problem and that your team is productive with. React seams to be the most popular for new proje

Best tools are the ones that are appropriate for solving a given problem and that your team is productive with. React seams to be the most popular for new projects at the moment, but it tells you nothing about it being a good choice for your particular problem or situation. React is significantly more popular than Vue but say you happen to be planning a Laravel project and in that community Vue is way more popular than React. It would appear that Vue is a solid choice for you new Laravel project, but then you get a requirement that you have to build mobile apps and they should share as much code as possible with your SPA yet use native widgets, now it appears you better of using React. So in general it's pointless trying to base your choice on how popular something is.