If you’ve spent time in the frontend world, you’ve likely encountered the great debate:
React vs. Vue. Both are powerful JavaScript frameworks for building dynamic user interfaces. Both have huge communities and proven production use cases. But when it came time to build Laioutr, our Frontend Management Platform for composable commerce, we had to choose carefully.
Our architecture is built on Nuxt.js for performance, but we chose Vue for component authoring and UI flexibility. Here’s why.
| React | Vue | |
|---|---|---|
| Syntax | JSX (JavaScript + HTML combined) | HTML-first with directives |
| Learning Curve | Steeper | Gentler |
| Community Size | Larger | Slightly smaller (but thriving) |
| Tooling | Rich, but fragmented | Opinionated and integrated |
| Flexibility | Maximum, but sometimes chaotic | Balanced and elegant |
| Adoption | Facebook, Shopify Hydrogen, etc. | Alibaba, GitLab, Adobe, etc. |
Both frameworks are fast, modern, and battle-tested. But when you're building a platform for scalable, reusable components used by both developers and non-developers, the details matter.
Vue uses single-file components (SFCs), where HTML, JS, and CSS live together, but cleanly separated. That makes components:
Easier to read
Easier to debug
Easier to onboard new devs
With React (JSX), everything is JavaScript. That’s powerful—but also intimidating for new or junior devs. Laioutr is used by teams of all skill levels. Vue makes the entry barrier lower, without sacrificing power.
Our users aren’t building dashboards for Silicon Valley SaaS startups. They’re building storefronts, fast.
Most agencies and e-commerce teams come from:
HTML/CSS-heavy backgrounds
Shopify themes (Liquid), Twig, or classic templating
Less JavaScript-heavy environments
Vue feels familiar and approachable. JSX does not.
Laioutr isn’t just a dev framework, it’s a visual frontend management platform.
We needed a component format that plays well with:
Layout previews
Drag-and-drop UIs
Live editing
Design tokens
Vue’s syntax and props system work beautifully in visual environments. React’s abstraction and meta-layers (hooks, contexts, etc.) are harder to introspect.
Vue’s component boilerplate is more compact out of the box, perfect for high-performance, edge-deployed storefronts.
Less boilerplate = smaller builds = faster pages = more revenue.
Our architecture uses Nuxt.js (Vue's meta-framework) in places where performance and deployment matter most:
Static generation
Edge delivery via Vercel
Image optimisation
Routing and code splitting
We call it the best of both worlds: Vue for expression, Next for execution.
| Requirement | Why Vue Wins |
|---|---|
| Onboarding | Familiar for most frontend teams |
| Readability | Clean HTML structure vs. JSX complexity |
| Visual building | Easier to introspect + edit in a UI |
| Performance | Leaner component payloads |
| Developer speed | Quicker page/component creation |
| Global support | Strong adoption in commerce projects |
Commerce teams are moving fast. They need tools that are:
Powerful
Performant
Friendly to both devs and marketers
That’s why Laioutr is built with Vue components and deployed with Next.js under the hood. You don’t need to pick sides. You just need to move faster, with fewer trade-offs.
Try Laioutr today and build with Vue power + Next.js performance