I've been doing this for so long that I've gained years of experience in React, Angular, and Vue. You said simple front-end development and there's nothing easier than Vue, hands down. The syntax is so easy and segregated perfectly; no JSX wild-west ugliness or fucking with a minefield of observable and subscriber pipe functions. It's easy to get started, encourages clean code, and very readable. It boggles my mind how there's so few VueJS jobs available despite the advantage. I think part of it is just developer laziness in picking up yet another library, which I totally understand. Unfortunately I'm stuck in React and Angular land 90% of the time and hate it.
I’ve used React, Vue, Knockout, and just plain vanilla JS, and Vue is what I reach for now for personal projects. React is great if it’s already set up but I don’t want to waste any time with a build system for personal projects. With Vue I just add a link to a CDN, copy paste the hello world code in and I’m off to the races.
