I was thinking to put React.js in my adopt circle, but I spent a couple of days setting up the Node.js gulp-vinyl-browserify-babelify nonsense, and it really is a witch&#x27;s brew of configuration hocus pocus.  Its compelling to know that React is backed by Facebook, but React is simply verbose and comes with too much stuff packed into one package.<p>Whats the alternative? Thanks to hacker news i bookmarked vuejs.org and finally got a chance to come back to it. I made a couple of pages with vue.js, and I think there is a lot less stuff to do. There&#x27;s no JSX. Your HTML peppered with vue.js directives is your templating language. There&#x27;s no server side rendering, but that may be a good thing in the end. Fewer dependencies, less learning curve, less ecosystem to swallow in a single gulp.  I hired a fresh grad from the Philippines, and he was able to pick it up and run with it immediately.  I&#x27;ve only been using vuejs over Christmas, but I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing what else it can do. I&#x27;ll post a small PHP-backed CRUD app if people are interested.