vue-cli

In vue we have Vue CLI, which is becoming as powerful as create-react-app and it also has nuxt.js https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli https://nuxtjs.org/

"If you love TypeScript: Angular" I would add an "(or Vue)" to this. When I first started out with Vue a month ago, there were some weird idiosyncrasies with typescript (IMHO). But the latest updates to "vue-class-component" and "vue-property-decorator" have fixed most of them. tip: I believe they're still working on a good option in the current CLI (https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/issues/263) but one of the templates linked in that post (https://github.com/johnlindquist/vue-typescript-simple) is almost perfect (I had to make the following change that's in one of the reported issues: https://github.com/johnlindquist/vue-typescript-simple/issue...).

I thought the vue-cli(https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli) tool did a pretty good job of creating sane webpack configurations by asking just a few basic questions.

For those new to Vue, Vue-CLI + templates have all the webpack configuration set up already for you. This makes setting up a Vue project very quick and simple. https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli https://github.com/vuejs-templates

If you want to work with REST APIs, it might be good for you to create a SPA application. The easiest thing to start seems to be Vue right now. With vue-cli with it's build command. https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/blob/master/docs/build.md Just create a single `.vue` file, run it with `vue build file.vue` and you can immediately just start hacking around. It can be even built that way for production. Feels simple like in the old days with single index.html, but you aren't missing any features of modern frontend stack.

I'd recommend checking out Vue CLI for structured Vue apps (https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli). There are plenty of tutorials on using vue-router and vuex with it. Addy Osmani mentioned a progressive web app template at Google IO recently (https://github.com/vuejs-templates/pwa) which gives you things like Service Worker etc

Vue really has the best of both worlds. You can use it like old-style angular or take the component approach. You can just include the 71kb minified script and take off or you can use a build system with components - Take a look at Vue-cli: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli

I had the same impression about Vue. When Redux came out I tried to learn React/Redux and, although I got it, it felt verbose and I couldn't quite pass the noob phase. Maybe I din't try hard enough. With Vue, on the other hand, it was easier to get started. I got a prototype working in a week with no previous knowledge of the framework. I'm avoiding the component state and using a Redux like approach using props and a centralised state, and I didn't even need to use Vuex[1]. I'm using typescript, which helps catch a lot of bugs early on, it's a little difficult to integrate with single file components[2] (which are awesome, btw), but once I got it working, it proved to be an excellent combo. The documentation is cristal clear and very beginner friendly. If you're getting started I highly recommend using vue-cli[3] to bootstrap your projec