I got ambitious and tried to do with Vue.js and learn the framework in the process. Magic state updates were nice when it worked but with deeply nested models it always failed and I had to hack around to force it to update. I spent a ton of time fighting vue magic. I was ambitious. I wanted to make a generic NxN sudoku game where N was a url param.
Overall vue was like angular, done slightly well but it still had angular like problems where the magic failed and you had to dig very deep in code. It was also very slow to update the Dom. I had to revert to DOM element mangling just to speed up initial shuffle algorithm. I believe vue2 got on the vdom bandwagon so that’s nice.
I finally got it done, with two loooong nights.https://github.com/nojvek/uber-sudoku/blob/master/README.md
Uber did meet with me face to face but I didn’t want to move SF at the time and they didn’t have a Seattle office.
Overall vue has great ideas, probably good for a small project, but if you want to do a big SPA, I would not recommend unless you are really prepared to learn the internal magic.
Nowadays I really prefer preact. It’s the React api, it’s small, fast (has a better license - before Facebook got its shit together). One can read the entire source code in an hour or two.
It does one thing, it does it really well. This is what I like to see in libraries.
As an aside, I thought I'd let you know that I've been a developer for just under one year, so admittedly do not have anywhere near the level of expertise that you have. I've also only been using Vue since April, but I guess that my level of overall experience, relative to yours, is lacking somewhat.