The reason why Vue works well for jQuery devs it’s because it allows you to continue doing what you’ve always done: server render then enhance on the client. Vue does this beautifully by accepting rendered HTML as its template. This means you can augment regular HTML and get the benefits of React without transpiration of JSX, nor the cumbersome nature of string templates in script tags. That’s where the jQuery comparison comes from, and it’s one of the major reasons for Vue’s success in that crowd. It’s a feature that doesn’t seem to get enough attention from/is often overlooked by those in the know because usually those people are writing SPAs.