> You can use vue without npm, it has a build you can just drop in a script tag like you would with jquery. This is actually the biggest selling point IMO. I u

> You can use vue without npm, it has a build you can just drop in a script tag like you would with jquery. This is actually the biggest selling point IMO. I used Svelte instead of Vue purely for speed, but the benchmarks suggest Vue has made real progress here. Though, I'm not sure that in real applications a virtual DOM solution could ever be quicker than compiled code to update state. But in terms of developer UX, I think Vue has the easiest entry point, and it seems to have decent performance to boot