The web development space has witnessed dramatic changes over the years. The JavaScript ecosystem, especially, has been truly volatile with new JavaScript frameworks being introduced almost every month. The existing ones are updated quite often, thanks to the community striving hard to constantly enrich them. Even though JS realm has been very vibrant with all the amazing diversity, it has greeted many with high degree of confusion.
The evolving JS landscape
So, when you come to an idea for a JavaScript-based web application development project, you are confused which framework would boost your ability and best suit your project’s requirement. Being an Angular web development company, we have always exceeded client satisfaction by delivering ambitious and competitive web apps within the required timeframe. Today we are considering a serious contender, Vue.js that has done exceptionally well in a limited period of time.
Angular vs. Vue.js
Angular is a very mature framework and Vue.js, on the contrary, is just a newbie. Despite that, Vue.js has managed to gain immense popularity in a very short period of time. It is evident from the fact that Vue.js has 53.7k GitHub stars while AngularJS has 55.8k and Angular has 24.1k GitHub stars.
In this post we would perform a comparative analysis of Angular and Vue.js based on the following dimensions:
Learning curve
Although learning curve depends on both the framework and its learner, still there are certain things which make the learning process harder or easier for most of the people.
Angular probably has the steepest learning curve because you need to learn a new language called TypeScript barring everything that you might have used earlier in JS development such as modules or components.
However, it brings along features like dependency injection that demands a bit of hard work in order to optimize your app as well as capitalize on features like ahead-of -time compilation and lazy loading.
Vue.js, on the other hand, works fine with both ES5 and ES6 and appears like JavaScript. Its template is intuitive to manipulate using components and directives and easy to output your data. However, building more complex apps is more complicated but Vuex, the official library for Vue.js applications, make it much easier.
Ease of usage
In the words of Evan You, the owner of Vue.js, unlike Angular Vue.js is a more flexible and less opinionated solution. Thus, it allows you to structure your application the way you want it to be rather than being forced to the things the way of the framework.
It is just like an interface layer which you can use to create light features in web pages instead of creating larger single page applications.
Hence, Vue.js is considered more balanced as it doesn’t put several implications like Angular and empowers you to build applications your way instead of ending up doing it the Angular way.
Performance
Your applications need to have a fast initial loading time i.e. small bundle size, as well as great runtime performance in order to perform well.
Angular is slower than Vue.js and it also has a big bundle size when it comes to smaller apps. However, Angular is a faster framework with great runtime performance when it comes to complex and bigger apps.
The performance of Vue.js might change when it comes to bigger apps focused on specific tasks. Therefore, the performance results need to be put into perspective and hence there is no clear winner in this dimension.
This is because the size and type of application significantly impacts the performance.
Creation of SPAs
Angular was built for creating Single Page Applications (SPAs); hence offers you a lot of tools for building larger SPAs. Google is using it too in order to rebuild apps like Adwords and Adsense.
Vue.js, on the other hand, is not focused on building SPAs though you can create SPAs using third-party packages.
So, Vue.js could also be a valid choice for building SPAs but you might encounter some challenges which you are less likely to hit while using Angular.
Ease of deployment
This dimension might sound trivial but it could be really tough to deploy your finished app correctly. The reason could very much be your chosen framework as some frameworks could make things complicated while deploying your optimized app.
Well, Angular could make your move from development to deployment the hardest one unless and until you use the Angular CLI. Still, leveraging features like lazy loading and Ahead-of-Time compilation could be a daunting task.
When it comes to the road to development and deployment, Vue.js is much easier than Angular. If you have dropped an import or if you have a complex local set-up Vue CLI would take care of everything and efficiently handle the code optimizations for you.
Final words!
Every framework comes with its own strengths and weaknesses; hence, finding the best one truly depends upon your project needs and your experience as a developer.
As a business owner, you need an application that serves your current needs, scales to address your future needs effectively and enables you to stay relevant and competitive in your industry.
Angular is a much evolved framework and has a lot of tools right out of the box. Vue.js is very lightweight and easy to learn and lets you create application your way. Now, the decision depends on the needs of your project.
Reach out to our team of Angular experts with your project needs and stay assured of an informed and cost-effective solution.
Which JS framework you found exciting to work with? We would love to know about your favourite framework.
It’s very strange when you compare two different things such as Angular & Vue, both are JavaScript frameworks. it is hard to answer the question “which one is better?” But, we can determine which one is more suitable for your current needs. AngularJS makes assumptions about your application. Vue JS makes less of these.
That is a good point you have raised. Thank you for your comment. Yes they are two different frameworks but they are competing in the JavaScript vertical of development. And thus we have presented the comparison here. We believe that each has its advantages which will suit to specific requirements.
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I have seen the people are nowadays demanding for Angular JS front-end developer on the job portals. But since everything has time and demand.
I will go with Vue JS because few peoples know this language and might be I will lucky enough to get the job in the Big company.
Nice Post! Thanks for sharing…