Vue is a progressive and incrementally adoptable framework for building user interfaces, renowned for its simplicity and flexibility. The core library focuses on views, making it easy to integrate with other libraries and existing projects. It excels in powering single-page applications when combined with supporting libraries like Pinia, vue-router, and VueUse. However, it's also versatile enough to build server-side rendered and statically generated web applications using the Nuxt framework.
Vue's HTML-based template syntax enables declarative binding of the rendered DOM to the underlying Vue instance's data. This, in conjunction with the reactivity system, ensures high performance by intelligently determining the minimal components to re-render and applying the minimal DOM manipulations when the app-state changes. Furthermore, applications can be organized into Single File Components, each containing the template (HTML), style (CSS), and functionality (JS). The Composition API and 'script setup' syntax further enhance code readability and modularity, promoting reusability and maintainability throughout the development process.
Vue introduces powerful features like Teleport, which enables components to render at any position on the page, and Fragment, removing the requirement for a single root element in a template. Additionally, Vue enhances performance through Tree-Shaking, reducing bundle size, and Compiler-informed Virtual DOM optimizations, resulting in faster initial renders and updates while consuming less memory.
Vue is a progressive, incrementally adoptable framework for building user interfaces maintained by Evan You. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, the core library is focused on the view layer only and is very easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects. Vue is also perfectly capable of powering sophisticated single-page applications when used in combination with modern tooling and supporting libraries such as vuex and vue-router.
Vue uses an HTML-based template syntax that allows you to declaratively bind the rendered DOM to the underlying Vue instance’s data. Under the hood, Vue compiles the templates into Virtual DOM render functions. Combined with the reactivity system Vue is able to intelligently figure out the minimal amount of components to re-render and apply the minimal amount of DOM manipulations when the app state changes, which provides for very high performance.
Applications can be split into Single File Components - a single file containing the template (HTML), style (CSS) and functionality (JS) - which simplifies maintainability and testability of the code and promotes reusability across other projects.