- React takes way more configuration to get started than Vue. You can technically use either of them with or without build tools, but without Babel and Webpack,

- React takes way more configuration to get started than Vue. You can technically use either of them with or without build tools, but without Babel and Webpack, Vue is still reasonably usable and React is laughably obtuse. - React out of the box may not be any more complicated than Vue, but it also does a whole lot less than Vue does. Chiefly, you don't get tracking of deep state changes without adding a second (state management) framework on top, and the major ones designed for use with React are also designed for scale, and require tons of boilerplate and highbrow programming theory to get up and running with (I'm looking at you, Redux). - React itself is pretty highbrow, forgoing straightforward OOP concepts for functional-programming ideals. Which isn't a bad thing! But it makes it harder for newcomers who just want to get the text on their page to match up with what's being typed in an input.