> instead, I am greeted with requirements of previous knowledge on a whole bouquet of other technologies: node, webpack, babel, grunt... Have you looked at the

> instead, I am greeted with requirements of previous knowledge on a whole bouquet of other technologies: node, webpack, babel, grunt... Have you looked at the standard Vue tutorial? It uses nothing but pasting code into a blank HTML page, a jsfiddle, or the tutorial page's JS console. It's extremely well-suited to someone who isn't already familiar with node/bundlers/etc. And it gives a surprisingly thorough introduction to Vue. https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/ https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/