[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":325},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-is-vue-js-still-worth-using":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"articleType":6,"author":7,"authorSlug":8,"body":9,"date":302,"description":303,"extension":304,"faq":305,"featured":313,"image":314,"meta":315,"navigation":316,"path":317,"readTime":318,"seo":319,"seoTitle":320,"stem":321,"tags":322,"__hash__":324},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fis-vue-js-still-worth-using.md","Is Vue.js in Demand in 2026? Why It Is Still Worth Using","TechArticle","Pavel Mironov","pavel-mironov",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":285},"minimark",[12,16,21,24,106,123,126,135,139,142,163,166,169,172,176,179,187,190,198,206,210,213,216,229,233,238,241,245,248,252,255,259,262,266,269,273,280],[13,14,15],"p",{},"Is Vue JS in demand in 2026? Yes. Vue is the second most-used front-end framework behind React in the State of JS survey, its users rate it higher than React users rate React, and its job market is smaller than React's but steady. One thing up front: React has more openings, and the numbers below say so. Here is where Vue stands, from a team that has built only with Vue since 2017.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"how-popular-is-vuejs-in-2026","How Popular Is Vue.js in 2026?",[13,22,23],{},"How popular is Vue JS right now? Two developer surveys and the npm registry measure different things, and they agree on the order: React first, Vue second, Angular close behind, Svelte growing from a smaller base.",[25,26,27,46],"table",{},[28,29,30],"thead",{},[31,32,33,37,40,43],"tr",{},[34,35,36],"th",{},"Framework",[34,38,39],{},"Developer usage (State of JS 2025 \u002F Stack Overflow 2025)",[34,41,42],{},"Satisfaction (State of JS 2025)",[34,44,45],{},"Weekly npm downloads (average, 4 weeks to 4 Oct 2026)",[47,48,49,64,78,92],"tbody",{},[31,50,51,55,58,61],{},[52,53,54],"td",{},"React",[52,56,57],{},"85% \u002F 44.7%",[52,59,60],{},"72%",[52,62,63],{},"~176M",[31,65,66,69,72,75],{},[52,67,68],{},"Vue.js",[52,70,71],{},"52% \u002F 17.6%",[52,73,74],{},"84%",[52,76,77],{},"~16M",[31,79,80,83,86,89],{},[52,81,82],{},"Angular",[52,84,85],{},"48% \u002F 18.2%",[52,87,88],{},"48%",[52,90,91],{},"~5.9M",[31,93,94,97,100,103],{},[52,95,96],{},"Svelte",[52,98,99],{},"27% \u002F 7.2%",[52,101,102],{},"86%",[52,104,105],{},"~5.8M",[13,107,108,109,116,117,122],{},"The two surveys ask different crowds. ",[110,111,115],"a",{"href":112,"rel":113},"https:\u002F\u002F2025.stateofjs.com\u002Fen-US\u002Flibraries\u002Ffront-end-frameworks\u002F",[114],"nofollow","State of JS 2025"," polls people who chose to fill in a JavaScript survey, so every number runs high. The ",[110,118,121],{"href":119,"rel":120},"https:\u002F\u002Fsurvey.stackoverflow.co\u002F2025\u002Ftechnology",[114],"Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025"," asks all developers what they worked with in the past year, and there Angular edges Vue by half a point. Either way Vue is a clear second tier with Angular, far behind React and far ahead of everything else.",[13,124,125],{},"Satisfaction is where Vue looks best. In State of JS 2025, 84% of Vue users had a positive view of it, against 72% for React and 48% for Angular; only Svelte scores higher. Stack Overflow's \"admired\" metric tells the same story in a narrower band: Svelte 62%, React 52%, Vue 51%, Angular 45%.",[13,127,128,129,134],{},"Downloads show the size gap most plainly. Over the four weeks to 4 October 2026, the ",[110,130,133],{"href":131,"rel":132},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.npmjs.com\u002Fpackage\u002Fvue",[114],"vue package"," averaged about 16 million downloads a week on npm, roughly eleven times fewer than React and almost three times more than Angular's core package or Svelte.",[17,136,138],{"id":137},"is-vuejs-in-demand-what-the-job-market-says","Is Vue.js in Demand? What the Job Market Says",[13,140,141],{},"The question people ask on Reddit is whether Vue is still in demand and well paid. Here is a snapshot we took on 8 October 2026:",[143,144,145,149,152,155],"ul",{},[146,147,148],"li",{},"LinkedIn, United States: 9,000+ postings mentioning Vue.js against 10,000+ for React.js. LinkedIn stops counting at 10,000, so the real React figure is higher.",[146,150,151],{},"LinkedIn, European Union: 8,000+ Vue.js postings, nearly as many as in the US.",[146,153,154],{},"Indeed, United States: about 1,000 Vue.js postings against about 16,000 for React.js.",[146,156,157,162],{},[110,158,161],{"href":159,"rel":160},"https:\u002F\u002Fvuejobs.com\u002F",[114],"VueJobs",", the Vue-only board: 1,306 open listings, 174 of them added that week.",[13,164,165],{},"So the honest answer is: fewer postings than React, by a wide margin on Indeed and a narrower one on LinkedIn. Two things soften that. The pool of Vue developers is smaller as well, 17.6% of developers against 44.7% for React in the Stack Overflow survey, so a Vue opening is often harder for an employer to fill, which is leverage for the candidate. And the market is more European than React's: the EU and US LinkedIn counts for Vue are nearly level, which is also what we see from our own office in Vilnius.",[13,167,168],{},"On pay, be careful with claims in either direction. No major 2025 survey breaks salary down by front-end framework. Stack Overflow reports it by developer type, and a Vue developer and a React developer are both \"front-end developer\" there. Seniority, location and domain move the number far more than the framework does.",[13,170,171],{},"Two skills raise a Vue CV. Nuxt, because server-rendered Vue is what most companies ship now, and TypeScript, because Vue 3 is written in it and the ecosystem assumes you use it.",[17,173,175],{"id":174},"the-future-of-vuejs","The Future of Vue.js",[13,177,178],{},"The future of Vue JS rests on three things that are already shipping or in release candidate.",[13,180,181,182,186],{},"Vapor Mode is the big one. Vue 3.6 adds a compilation mode that skips the virtual DOM, opt-in per component, with performance in the same league as Solid and Svelte. As of 8 October 2026, 3.6 is at release candidate 10 (published 30 September) and the stable tag on npm is still 3.5.43, so plan it as a targeted optimisation rather than a rewrite. Our guide to ",[110,183,185],{"href":184},"\u002Fblog\u002Fvue-vapor-mode-migration","Vue Vapor Mode"," covers how to decide.",[13,188,189],{},"Tooling gets less attention but touches every project. VoidZero, the company Evan You founded around Vue's build chain, shipped Vite 8 in March 2026 on Rolldown, a Rust bundler that reached 1.0 in May, with the Oxc compiler underneath. Upgrade and you inherit the speed.",[13,191,192,193,197],{},"Then there is Nuxt 4, which is not future at all. It shipped in July 2025, reached 4.6 on 5 October 2026, and is now the default way to build a Vue app that needs server rendering. Our ",[110,194,196],{"href":195},"\u002Fblog\u002Fnuxt4-migration","Nuxt 4 migration guide"," covers the upgrade.",[13,199,200,201,205],{},"One date that worries people: Vue 2 reached end of life on 31 December 2023. Teams still on it are facing a migration, not a dying framework, and ",[110,202,204],{"href":203},"\u002Fservices\u002Fvue-3-migration","migrating from Vue 2 to Vue 3"," is routine work for us.",[17,207,209],{"id":208},"conclusion-is-vuejs-still-worth-using","Conclusion: Is Vue.js Still Worth Using?",[13,211,212],{},"Yes, with a clear split on who it is for.",[13,214,215],{},"SaaS dashboards and admin panels are the obvious fit: Vue's component libraries and reactivity keep large forms and tables manageable. So is the gradual migration of a legacy front-end, because Vue drops into existing server-rendered pages one widget at a time. Small and mid-sized teams get one official path through routing, state and server rendering instead of a stack of choices. And any team that wants server-side rendering without adopting React gets exactly that from Nuxt.",[13,217,218,219,223,224,228],{},"The fit weakens where hiring at React scale matters most. If you plan to hire dozens of front-end engineers across several cities, React's larger pool is a real advantage, and our ",[110,220,222],{"href":221},"\u002Fblog\u002Freact-vue","Vue vs React comparison"," goes through the trade-offs without a thumb on the scale. Weighing Vue for a new product or a migration? Our ",[110,225,227],{"href":226},"\u002Fservices\u002Fvue-js-consulting","Vue.js consulting services"," team will give you a straight answer.",[17,230,232],{"id":231},"faqs","FAQs",[234,235,237],"h3",{"id":236},"is-vuejs-dying","Is Vue.js dying?",[13,239,240],{},"No. In State of JS 2025, 52% of respondents had used Vue, the vue package averages about 16 million npm downloads a week, Vue 3.6 with Vapor Mode is in release candidate and Nuxt 4.6 shipped in October 2026. Frameworks in decline do not ship two major lines at once.",[234,242,244],{"id":243},"is-vuejs-good-for-beginners-in-2026","Is Vue.js good for beginners in 2026?",[13,246,247],{},"Yes, and it is the easiest of the big three to start with. Templates are HTML with a few extra attributes, the docs follow one path, and the official stack of Vue Router, Pinia and Nuxt removes most decisions. Learn plain JavaScript first; Vue rewards it.",[234,249,251],{"id":250},"is-vuejs-used-by-big-companies","Is Vue.js used by big companies?",[13,253,254],{},"Yes. GitLab's web interface is built with Vue, Alibaba has been a major adopter since Vue's early days, and Laravel ships Vue-based tools such as Nova. Many more SaaS products and internal platforms, including the ones our team maintains for clients, run on Vue without ever making a logo wall.",[234,256,258],{"id":257},"should-i-learn-vue-or-react-first","Should I learn Vue or React first?",[13,260,261],{},"Pick by the jobs you want. If you are targeting the US market or large product companies, React has more openings. If you want to ship something this month, Vue is faster to learn and its ideas, components, reactivity and routing, transfer to React later. Neither choice locks you in.",[234,263,265],{"id":264},"do-vuejs-developers-earn-less-than-react-developers","Do Vue.js developers earn less than React developers?",[13,267,268],{},"No primary source shows that. The Stack Overflow 2025 survey reports pay by developer type, not by framework, and Vue and React developers sit in the same front-end bucket. In practice pay tracks seniority, location and domain far more than the framework on your CV.",[234,270,272],{"id":271},"is-vue-2-still-supported","Is Vue 2 still supported?",[13,274,275,276,279],{},"No. Vue 2 reached end of life on 31 December 2023 and no longer receives security fixes. A paid extended-support option exists from HeroDevs, but for most teams the right move is a planned ",[110,277,278],{"href":203},"Vue 3 migration",", which also unlocks Nuxt 4, Vite 8 and Vapor Mode.",[281,282],"blog-button",{"label":283,"to":284},"Talk to a Vue expert","https:\u002F\u002Fcalendar.app.google\u002FXwRzASZitZRSVLxq6",{"title":286,"searchDepth":287,"depth":287,"links":288},"",3,[289,291,292,293,294],{"id":19,"depth":290,"text":20},2,{"id":137,"depth":290,"text":138},{"id":174,"depth":290,"text":175},{"id":208,"depth":290,"text":209},{"id":231,"depth":290,"text":232,"children":295},[296,297,298,299,300,301],{"id":236,"depth":287,"text":237},{"id":243,"depth":287,"text":244},{"id":250,"depth":287,"text":251},{"id":257,"depth":287,"text":258},{"id":264,"depth":287,"text":265},{"id":271,"depth":287,"text":272},"2026-10-13","Is Vue.js in demand? See how popular Vue.js is in 2026, what the job market looks like and where Vapor Mode takes it next. 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