I really don't want Vue to become another React. React used to be a single </script> dependency in the browser and now it is difficult to find examples and discussions that don't require downloading npm and all these other components.
Because I'm programming Rails and I don't want another ecosystem polluting the devspace for these projects. (See the unholy mess that is react-on-rails, what with bringing in v8 when Rails already uses another JS engine). I also strongly disagree with node's module culture, and prefer mature environments. The browser loads scripts, why can't that be enough?
I see React and Vue as tools for scratching very specific itches: fast DOM manipulations and databinding that actually works. React was this, then it grew and grew and grew. Vue is threatening to move away from this.
Also, still pissed that my year-and-a-half old react code is now hopelessly out of date, and requires updating (guess what, I'll be porting it to vue instead). That is bullshit.
Your year and a half old React app shouldn't be "hopelessly out of date" unless you did something very wrong.
If you want to use React with Rails, use Rails in API mode and keep the front-end separate. I'm not sure how rewriting in Vue is going to solve any of your problems at all.
"The browser loads scripts, why can't that be enough?"
Not sure what you mean by this. Whatever you use, the browser will be loading scripts.
Vue doesn't require nodejs to follow along with the examples
Vue doesn't prescribe to me how I should write my markup (beyond Angular-style attributes) or force me to violate separation-of-concerns.
Vue doesn't require it's stuff to be stored in $ROOT/app/assets/javascript/components, when all the rest of my code lives in $ROOT/app/whatever
Vue doesn't (or didn't) prescribe all these stupid little companion addons to do things I learned how to do (and do better) years ago
Vue doesn't give me a shitty markup language (JSX -- class vs className? Fuck off!) or even worse alternatives (its super verbose JS-DOM alternative) if I don't want (or can't) use it
Vue doesn't have nearly as large of an obnoxious, inexperienced, harebrained, and cloud-huffing crowd that will argue with me when I express distaste in it
"Vue doesn't have nearly as large of an obnoxious, inexperienced, harebrained, and cloud-huffing crowd that will argue with me when I express distaste in it"
