What is React? What is VUE?
The concept explained on Wikipedia, Vue.js is an open source MVVM front-end JavaScript framework for creating user interfaces, and a web application framework for creating single-page applications. Vue.js was created by Evan You and maintained by him and other active core team members.
A survey of JavaScript frameworks in 2016 showed that Vue had 89% developer satisfaction. On GitHub, the project can earn an average of 95 stars every day, making it the third most starred project in GitHub history.
React Native is a cross-end technology created by Facebook (renamed: Meta). Different from VUE, Cordora, which is a cross-end technology that nests webpage apps in Webview. The view that React Native finally provides to users is a native view, which allows users to experience the feeling of a native application.
React and VUE have their own pros and cons
First of all, they are all cross-end frameworks, so the attributes of cross-end development are essential, which is a commonality. React Native allows developers to use the same code base to build applications on multiple platforms (iOS and Android), greatly reducing development costs and time. Vue.js is not as focused on cross-platform mobile application development as React Native is. Although you can use Vue.js to develop web applications and mobile web applications, for native application development, you need to use other solutions. On this point, I give React +1.
At the same time, React Native's hot update technology is also a bonus item. React allows hot updates while the application is running without re-publishing the application, which greatly simplifies the application update process. In terms of community size, React, which is backed by Meta, has a huge developer community and provides a large number of third-party libraries, components, and tools to facilitate developers to quickly build feature-rich applications. Although VUE's community is very active, the community scale is still not as good as React, and technical examples in some special scenarios may have limited support.
I feel that all the above mentioned are the advantages of RN, but what about VUE? Of course, it also has its advantages: the progressive framework makes Vue.js easy to learn and use; Vue.js has a small file size, fast loading speed, and good performance, especially suitable for mobile terminals and low-bandwidth environments; supports two-way data binding This makes the synchronization between data and views more convenient and efficient.
Here is a summary, the application of the cross-terminal framework is only relatively suitable, not absolutely suitable. If you expect to use the same code base to build cross-platform mobile applications, especially projects that have high requirements for performance and native proximity, then use React Native. Vue.js is suitable for development projects that want to use a simple, lightweight framework to build web applications with high flexibility.
Foresight: an innovative cross-end framework
Compared with the traditional native application development technology, the applet technology has the advantages of light weight, rapid development, cross-platform, no installation, and more user-friendly. Mini programs can be used without downloading and installing by users. At the same time, the development cost of mini programs is relatively lower, the development speed is faster, and it is easier to maintain and update. The applet technology also supports cross-platform operation and can run on multiple mobile devices at the same time, which greatly expands the coverage of applications and brings greater commercial value to enterprises and developers. Some of the more well-known small program container technology products on the market include: WeChat, Alipay, Baidu, Douyin small programs, etc., all of which are based on the technology base to improve the small program ecology of the big social platform, and can provide third parties for privatization deployment There are: FinClip, mPaaS and other products. It is understood that the small program container technology independently developed by FinClip can enable enterprises’ apps to have the ability to quickly run small programs, and their SDK can also be embedded in functional device terminals other than apps (such as Linux, Windows, MacOS, Kirin and other operating systems).
As a part of the WeChat ecosystem, the Mini Program container provides developers with a stable and efficient operating environment, allowing developers to focus more on application functions and user experience. The huge user base and rich developer community of the WeChat ecosystem provide developers and enterprises with broad business opportunities and partners. Through the combination of cross-end development, small program container and WeChat ecology, developers can quickly iterate, efficiently develop and deploy applications, provide better user experience, and obtain broader market coverage and business opportunities.
There is no best, only the most suitable
There is only the most suitable choice for a development project, not the absolute best framework. Every project has its own unique needs, team background, and time constraints, so choosing the right framework requires careful weighing of various factors. In addition to React Native and Vue.js, there are other cross-end frameworks, such as Flutter, Ionic, FinClip, etc., which also have their own advantages and applicable scenarios. Choosing an appropriate framework should comprehensively consider the requirements of the project, the technology stack and familiarity of the development team, as well as the ecosystem and performance of the framework.
If the project needs to quickly build cross-platform mobile applications, and React or React-related technology stacks exist, then React Native may be a good choice. It has a huge community, rich support, and good performance optimization. It is suitable for some scenarios that require high native proximity; if the project is mainly web application development, especially if you want to gradually apply the front-end framework to the existing project, Vue.js may is a more appropriate choice. Its light weight and flexibility allow developers to get started quickly and gradually build complex front-end applications.