I was thinking to put React.js in my adopt circle, but I spent a couple of days setting up the Node.js gulp-vinyl-browserify-babelify nonsense, and it really is a witch's brew of configuration hocus pocus. Its compelling to know that React is backed by Facebook, but React is simply verbose and comes with too much stuff packed into one package.

Whats the alternative? Thanks to hacker news i bookmarked vuejs.org and finally got a chance to come back to it. I made a couple of pages with vue.js, and I think there is a lot less stuff to do. There's no JSX. Your HTML peppered with vue.js directives is your templating language. There's no server side rendering, but that may be a good thing in the end. Fewer dependencies, less learning curve, less ecosystem to swallow in a single gulp. I hired a fresh grad from the Philippines, and he was able to pick it up and run with it immediately. I've only been using vuejs over Christmas, but I'm looking forward to seeing what else it can do. I'll post a small PHP-backed CRUD app if people are interested.