I was enjoying lurking, reading some of the freak out around what amounts to spending a day or a week learning a new framework. Whether you believe that this JS theatre is good or bad, learning new concepts and solutions is never a waste of time, even if only to internally validate some other method. But if you thought that being a competent software engineer only required a one-time, upfront educational cost you probably got into the wrong field.
But throughout all this I was wondering who would come out and mention Vue.js. While my own current preference is CLJS and reagent/re-frame, I feel like this largely unknown framework should get some representation.
(Disclaimer: I am not claiming this is the best framework out there, but it is very nice and I believe a great alternative for many of the commenters here who are coming from Angular, trying to figure out where to turn next, but not wanting to toss years of experience.)
If you come from Angular and like it's declarative markup but don't care for the outdated architecture, Vue.js[1] is worth looking at. It's beautifully clean and blazingly fast (v-dom under the hood). If you are willing to use a Webpack or Browserify loader you get a very straightforward single file component style[2], similar to a web component, where you can easily mix and match style (scoped or not), script, and markup language of choice. The script side of the component looks remarkably similar to React if the render function was replaced with an external HTML template in the style of Angular.
For the Angular developers out there who "like things the way they are" (mostly), do yourself a favor and check it out.
