Comment by conradfr | Hacker News Reader

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In a way VueJS is "React for those who liked Angular1".

I've done many Angular apps. I've done a bit of React (with Reflux & Browserify).

I tried moving to React/Redux/Webpack but it's not an easy task to grasp the whole thing. Webpack itself was close to make me throw the towel on side projects.

I tried VueJS because of a job interview and quite liked it and got productive really fast thanks to good documentation and my previous experience in angular & React.

Professionally I wouldn't mind any of those but for side projects it will be VueJS from now on.

As a side note I don't get why all the boilerplates always mix backend and frontend code and dependencies. If you're not interested in a node backend and learning it's overwhelming.

The worst thing is that boilerplates you find are always outdated (router, hot-reloading etc) and worst of all mingling server and client deps so if you're not interested in a node backend you have to

If I was reading your post 3 months ago, I would completely agree with you. But learning React/Redux and Webpack is not that hard at all, just focus on one and move on to the next. WebPack is dead easy IMO, Redux is just an design concept, but it's easy to implement as well. I think sometimes developers over hype technology and make it sound incredibly hard, when in fact is just isn't.

React itself is simple but having a whole project with React/Redux and a full fledged Webpack/Babel config managing dev and prod build is really not simple IMHO.

And, once you have all that working, staying up to date without bugs due to version mismatches can be a real pain.

I feel like a broken record, but definitely take a look at create-react-app if you haven't already. Its extremely well documented and takes care of managing the 20+ dev dependencies that are typically associated with a project.

It's useful but doesn't take care of state management AFAIK which can be a big part.

And likewise I feel like a broken record, but try MobX instead of Redux. Much quicker to get started.

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