Angular vs Vue.js | What are the differences?

Overview

Angular

Stacks2.0K

Followers4.8K

Votes499

GitHub Stars99.2K

Forks26.7K

Vue.js

Stacks55.2K

Followers44.7K

Votes1.6K

GitHub Stars209.7K

Forks33.8K

Angular 2 vs Vue.js: What are the differences?

Angular 2: One framework. Mobile & desktop. Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications; Vue.js: Reactive Components for Modern Web Interfaces. Vue.js is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

Angular 2 can be classified as a tool in the "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category, while Vue.js is grouped under "Javascript UI Libraries".

"It's a powerful framework" is the primary reason why developers consider Angular 2 over the competitors, whereas "Simple and easy to start with" was stated as the key factor in picking Vue.js.

Angular 2 and Vue.js are both open source tools. Vue.js with 143K GitHub stars and 20.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Angular 2 with 49.5K GitHub stars and 13.6K GitHub forks.

9GAG, Sellsuki, and esa are some of the popular companies that use Vue.js, whereas Angular 2 is used by Auto Trader, AgoraPulse, and Kalibrr. Vue.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 849 company stacks & 1219 developers stacks; compared to Angular 2, which is listed in 259 company stacks and 237 developer stacks.

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Advice on Angular, Vue.js

Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs adviceon

Vue.js

React

I find using Vue.js to be easier (more concise / less boilerplate) and more intuitive than writing React. However, there are a lot more readily available React components that I can just plug into my projects. I'm debating whether to use Vue.js or React for an upcoming project that I'm going to use to help teach a friend how to build an interactive frontend. Which would you recommend I use?

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Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

@{Nuxt.js}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
@{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
@{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
@{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
@{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
@{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
@{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
@{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.

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Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs advice

Simple datepickers are cumbersome. For such a simple data input, I feel like it takes far too much effort. Ideally, the native input[type="date"] would just work like it does on FF and Chrome, but Safari and Edge don't handle it properly. So I'm left either having a diverging experience based on the browser or I need to choose a library to implement a datepicker since users aren't good at inputing formatted strings.

For React alone there are tons of examples to use https://reactjsexample.com/tag/date/. And then of course there's the bootstrap datepicker (https://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), jQueryUI calendar picker, https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr, and many more.

How do you recommend going about handling date and time inputs? And then there's always moment.js, but I've observed some users getting stuck when presented with a blank text field. I'm curious to hear what's worked well for people...

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Detailed Comparison

Angular	Vue.js
It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.	It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
Progressive Web Apps; Native; Code Generation; Code Splitting	Reactivity; Components; Modularity; Animations; Routing; Stability; Extendable Data bindings; Plain JS object models; Build UI by composing components; Mix & matching small libraries
Statistics
GitHub Stars 99.2K	GitHub Stars 209.7K
GitHub Forks 26.7K	GitHub Forks 33.8K
Stacks 2.0K	Stacks 55.2K
Followers 4.8K	Followers 44.7K
Votes 499	Votes 1.6K
Pros & Cons
Pros 109 It's a powerful framework 53 Straight-forward architecture 48 TypeScript 45 Great UI and Business Logic separation 40 Powerful, maintainable, fast Cons 9 Large overhead in file size and initialization time 9 Overcomplicated 2 CLI not open to other test and linting tools 2 Ugly code	Pros 294 Simple and easy to start with 230 Good documentation 196 Components 131 Simple the best 100 Simplified AngularJS Cons 9 Less Common Place 5 YXMLvsHTML Markup 3 Only support programatically multiple root nodes 3 Don't support fragments
Integrations
Bugsnag Firebase Sentry Socket.IO	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Angular, Vue.js?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Aurelia

Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.