As far as I can tell, Vue doesn't actually do much differently than the hundreds of Javascript view libraries that have come before it, like Backbone views. It

As far as I can tell, Vue doesn't actually do much differently than the hundreds of Javascript view libraries that have come before it, like Backbone views. It seems just to be gaining popularity as a "react"-ionary pendulum swing from React boilerplate. I don't have anything against Vue but I don't see specific benefits over other similar libraries.