Vanilla -> jQuery -> Angular.js -> Angular 2+, React pre-Redux existence -> modern React -> Vue (and hobby apps in Svelte + bunch of random stuff: Mithril, Hyperapp, etc)
I have something to say on the topic of:
> "If you pick React, you're not getting hurt because Vue and React are incompatible, you're getting hurt because the React shit breaks and churns."
I find the fact that front-end has a fragmented ecosystem due to different frameworks completely absurd. We have Webcomponents, which are framework-agnostic and will run in vanilla JS/HTML and nobody bothers to use them.
Most frameworks support compiling components to Webcomponents out-of-the-box (React excepted, big surprise).
https://angular.io/guide/elements
https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/build-targets.html#web-component
https://svelte.dev/docs#Custom_element_API
If you are the author of a major UI component (or library of components), why would you purposefully choose to restrict your package to your framework's ecosystem. The amount of work it takes to publish a component that works in a static index.html page with your UI component loaded through a <script> tag is trivial for most frameworks.
I can't tell people how to live their lives, and not to be a choosy beggar, but if you build great tooling, don't you want as many people to be able to use it as possible?
Frameworks don't have to be a limiting factor, we have a spec for agnostic UI components that are interoperable, just nobody bothers to use them and it's infuriating.
You shouldn't have to hope that the person who built the best "Component for X" did it your framework-of-choice (which will probably not be around in 2-3 years anyways, or have changed so much it doesn't run anymore unless updated)
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Footnote: The Ionic team built a framework for the singular purpose of making framework-agnostic UI elements that work with everything, and it's actually pretty cool. It's primarily used for design systems in larger organizations and cross-framework components. They list Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon as some of the people using it in production:
