Episode description

Topics include:

• How Vue focuses on making things easy at the cost of a more complex API, while React focuses on keeping things simple at the cost of a steeper learning curve
• How to translate Vue's computed properties to React using the useMemo hook
• How to translate Vue's watchers to React using the useEffect hook
• How to translate Vue's v-model to React using value props and event listeners
• How to translate Vue's events to React using callback props
• How to translate Vue's slots to React by passing JSX as a normal prop
• How to handle transitions in React with libraries like Pose

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Links:

• Why I prefer React over Vue, from Sebastian's blog
• React docs
• Introducing Hooks at React Conf
• Hooks docs
• Vue Template Explorer
• Pose, animation library for React and Vue
• Overreacted.io, Dan Abramov's React blog