You don't get server-side rendering with a simple vue component though. I.e. when Google's crawler hits your site it just sees a blank html page with a div and

You don't get server-side rendering with a simple vue component though. I.e. when Google's crawler hits your site it just sees a blank html page with a div and nothing more, and your SEO is zero. For a content-heavy site like a blog this is a death sentence of discoverability, and it's why I mentioned you have to go down a deep rabbit hole of extra tech like SSR, static site gens like Gridsome, etc. to resolve it (all with a new set of tradeoffs to consider). In contrast with alpine, you'd write all your content as plain HTML. Google's crawler sees it and indexes it like any other static content site. Then alpine sprinkles in a bit of interactivity on top for your users. Getting the same behavior with vue (static content with dynamic stuff attached to the DOM later) is non-trivial.