Vue vs React vs Angular vs Svelte

Why Vue Is the Underrated Number One in 2025

When it comes to modern frontend frameworks, four names dominate the landscape: Vue, React, Angular, and Svelte.
But while React owns the hype, Angular shines in enterprise environments, and Svelte claims the role of the clean, minimal newcomer, there is one framework that quietly delivers, stays technically elegant, and still doesn’t receive the spotlight it deserves:

Vue.

Yes — this article is intentionally pro-Vue. And with good reason.

🟩 Vue: The balanced framework that has everything — yet remains underrated

Vue is the framework that blends:

• Angular’s structure
• React’s flexibility
• Svelte’s performance-oriented approach
• One of the best Developer Experiences on the market

into a single, coherent package — without unnecessary complexity or ideological baggage.

🔥 What Vue does better in 2025

1. Single-File Components are simply unbeatable

While React developers are still debating JSX philosophies
and Angular pushes decorators and boilerplate,
Vue offers something clear, organized, and flexible:

<template>…</template>
<script setup>
…
</script>
<style scoped>
…
</style>
Not just elegant — efficient. 2. The reactivity system is intuitive and powerful
Vue’s reactivity is: more straightforward than Angular’s DI structure less
manual and error-prone than React’s setState/useEffect maze more stable and
predictable than Svelte’s compiler-driven reactivity It’s just reactive —
without surprises. 3. The ecosystem isn’t large for the sake of being large —
it’s curated Vue Router Pinia Nuxt (which elevates Vite + Vue + SSR + DX to the
next level) Everything fits together. React, on the other hand? A new state
manager every week. 🤷‍♂️ 4. Built-in transitions — no other framework does this as
beautifully Vue’s
<transition></transition>

Not just elegant — efficient.

2. The reactivity system is intuitive and powerful

Vue’s reactivity is:

• More straightforward than Angular’s DI structure
• Less manual and error-prone than React’s setState/useEffect maze
• More stable and predictable than Svelte’s compiler-driven reactivity

It’s just reactive — without surprises.

3. The ecosystem isn’t large for the sake of being large — it’s curated

The official ecosystem delivers all necessary tools out of the box:

• Vue Router
• Pinia (the modern, simple state manager)
• Nuxt (which elevates Vite + Vue + SSR + DX to the next level)

Everything fits together. React, on the other hand? A new state manager every week. 🤷‍♂️

4. Built-in transitions — no other framework does this as beautifully

Vue’s <transition> API is legendary.

• React? → “Install Framer-Motion.”
• Angular? → “Use the bulky animation module.”
• Svelte? → “Compiler animations — nice, but limited.”

Vue strikes the perfect balance: powerful, lightweight, and built in.

🟦 React: The ecosystem giant without a clear direction

React undeniably has: the market share, community momentum, and hype.

But by 2025, it often feels like a box of LEGO without instructions:

• Router? Many competing libraries.
• State management? Redux? Zustand? Jotai? MobX? Signals?
• SSR? Next, Remix, Gatsby, Hydrogen… the list goes on.

React no longer feels like a framework — more like a collection of clever ideas that every developer must assemble themselves.

🟥 Angular: Reliable, but heavy

Angular is powerful, stable, and enterprise-ready.

But:

• Too much boilerplate
• Too strict
• Too steep of a learning curve
• Not flexible enough

It works extremely well — but doesn't always feel good to use.

🟨 Svelte: Fast, fun… but not fully ready for large-scale use

Svelte is delightful and compact.

Yet:

• Smaller community
• Fewer libraries and integrations
• Faster-breaking changes
• SvelteKit is strong but still below Nuxt’s maturity

Svelte shines for small and medium projects. Large-scale? Still questionable.

🟩 Why Vue is the underrated number one

Vue delivers a near-perfect blend of stability, flexibility, performance, and developer experience — yet is often dismissed as “the alternative to React.”

It’s not the alternative. It’s the better choice for many projects.

2025 should finally make this clear.

🧠 Final Thoughts

Vue isn’t the loudest framework. It isn’t the one with the biggest hype. But it’s the most sensible one.

Anyone starting a modern project while ignoring Vue will eventually realize what they’ve missed.