Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React?

Re:Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React? by abalashov on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:44PM (#14581493)

It's funny: I'm not even a web developer by trade, and perhaps precisely because of that fact, every other day at least I have a conversation with a colleague that goes something like, "Wouldn't it be great if there were Swing for browsers?" The idea of pre-styled and easily laid-out widgets holds a great deal of appeal. Vue and Bootstrap come close to giving me that, but not quite.

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Re:Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React? by unclebucknasty on Sunday June 18, 2017 @01:04PM (#14581626)

Yeah, Swing is actually fun to write. Possibly because its paradigm is elegant and such a natural fit for the problem that you don't spend time fighting to fit a square peg in a round hole.

Shame it came with such an unwieldy deployment model that it never gained more traction.

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Re:Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React? by abalashov on Sunday June 18, 2017 @01:58PM (#14581922)

For me personally, the biggest selling point is not having to evolve the skill set of design and layout. I'm a developer, not a designer, and the ROI on me learning the fine points of CSS is very low. I already know the bottom 80% of CSS, but who doesn't? It's the top 20% where the "magic" happens, as with so many things.

Pre-styled, if unremarkable componentry is what I need to deliver business outcomes. Bootstrap is made for people like me, but something like Swing would make it even easier.

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Re:Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React? by unclebucknasty on Sunday June 18, 2017 @02:08PM (#14581960)

Yeah, that's true. Devs spend too much time pixel-wrangling in the minutae of CSS.

But, for me, it's not just the styling, but the architecture and componentry for modeling out async, event-driven web apps in a more natural way. And, I think that's the piece you're referencing that Swing can add to Bootstrap-alone.

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Re:Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React? by abalashov on Sunday June 18, 2017 @02:21PM (#14582028)

I would agree that the deep inheritance hierarchies in verbose OO environments like Java actually do make sense for UI work. I think that's the one area in which they actually do make sense. Otherwise, it's all mostly a fantastical contrivance that leads to far too much boilerplate.

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Re:Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React? by fotcorn on Sunday June 18, 2017 @02:21PM (#14582025)

Checkout Element [0], in my opinion it comes very near to a "Swing for browsers". There is a version for Vue.js and React.

[0] http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US

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