Kendall Nelson kennelson11@gmail.com writes:
Hello Everyone!
The StoryBoard team is looking at alternatives to Angular.js since its going end of life. After some research, we've boiled all the options down to two possibilities:
Vue.js
or
React.js
I am diving more deeply into researching those two options this week, but any opinions or feedback on your experiences with either of them would be helpful!
Here is the etherpad with our research so far[3].
Feel free to add opinions there or in response to this thread!
-Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) & The StoryBoard Team
[1] https://vuejs.org/ [2] https://reactjs.org/ [3] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/replace-angularjs-storyboard-research
React +1
I've heard good things about Vue and I think it's very comparable to React, and probably a little easier to learn and work with, but even so, React has a huge amount of support and has made significant strides in becoming easier to use, to the point that it may be a tossup.
Given that, the large React ecosystem and support base tips the scale for me.
Overlap with Zuul means there's a bunch of code you can copy (and eventually vice versa, so don't consider this an impartial recommendation!). Also test jobs, framework, docs etc.
See https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/reference/developer/javascript.html and https://www.softwarefactory-project.io/react-for-python-developers.html for uniquely local perspectives on getting started with react.
Finally, a relatively new development in the react space is the "redux toolkit". Redux is the standard-ish way of dealing with client-side state and transitions in react (and we use it in Zuul), but it's easily the least straightforward part of the whole system. Redux toolkit handles a whole bunch of the boilerplate there and makes it almost easy to follow. At some point I'd like to rework Zuul's use of redux to use the toolkit, but haven't gotten around to it yet. If storyboard uses react and redux, give that a good look; it's much easier to start with that.
-Jim