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Probably because none of those advantages of other solutions matter for small-to-medium scale business. It's about getting things done _fast_, not getting the f
by srg0 6y ago
Probably because none of those advantages of other solutions matter for small-to-medium scale business. It's about getting things done _fast_, not getting the fastest thing. And for that purpose, a popular tool is usually better (more people, more information, bigger ecosystem).
As for the technical merits of the alternatives, they fail to manifest in most situations:
"Faster" - any framework is fast enough for most of the common tasks; and even if a popular framework is not the fastest, it is not necessarily a bottleneck in the real life applications.
"Smaller" - it is just "faster" download. Irrelevant in many usage scenarios. It might be important in some applications, but shaving milliseconds vs man-months is a tough sale.
"Official batteries" - bundling of the dependencies is completely irrelevant from the business perspective. It's something that the developers are paid to figure out.
- pier25 6y ago> but shaving milliseconds vs man-months is a tough sale It's not really one or the other. Both Preact and Inferno can be used with React libraries with a compat layer. > bundling of the dependencies is completely irrelevant from the business perspective. It's not irrelevant. Vue is used by major corps in China. > It's something that the developers are paid to figure out. Didn't you just argue that the advantage of React is that developers get "things done _fast_"? How come this is not an advantage in the case of Vue?
- srg0 6y ago> Vue is used by major corps in China It might be the case that in China Vue is the default and the most popular choice. And still my point holds: Vue is not the fastest, and is not the smallest framework. Technical merits alone ("faster", "smaller") are not enough to drive adoption. On bundling/unbundling. I think it's a preference thing. "Batteries included" vs "modular" are both viable designs.
- pier25 6y agoSince you're claiming the answer is not technical, why would Vue be more popular in China than React and why isn't Vue more popular in the Western world? > I think it's a preference thing. "Batteries included" vs "modular" are both viable designs. Again, it's not one or the other. Vue in itself is just a simple rendering engine much like React, Inferno, etc. There are official libraries (router, state, etc) but those are separate projects which you can choose to use or not. It's not a framework like Angular, Ember, etc.