As soon as the popular javascript framework Vue.js released v2, I was eager to give it a spin and see what it’s like to work with. As someone who’s pretty familiar with Angular and React, I was looking forward to seeing the similarities and differences between them and Vue. Vue 2 sports excellent performance stats, a relatively small payload (the bundled runtime version of Vue weighs in at 30KB once minified and gzipped), along with updates to companion libraries like vue-router and Vuex, the state management library for Vue. There’s far too much to cover in just one article, but keep an eye out for some later articles where we’ll look more closely at various libraries that couple nicely with the core framework.