Coming from back-end dev, I looked at both. React looked hard to learn because I (thought) had to pick up a huge amount of tooling knowledge. Vue looked easy to

Coming from back-end dev, I looked at both. React looked hard to learn because I (thought) had to pick up a huge amount of tooling knowledge. Vue looked easy to learn because its docs promoted a very incremental and piecemeal approach. I didn't need to learn about front-end tooling to build something useful. I started learning Vue. It was easy to learn. I haven't had a compelling reason to try React since then.