The app.js file governs a “blog” app shell. The server.js file pulls in the Express library, configures it for request handling including render methods for SSR.

Vue.js, which has been positioned as a rival to Facebook’s popular React JavaScript library, has moved to a 2.0 release, featuring a redone rendering layer for better performance.

The React and Vue.js JavaScript libraries share some of the best ideas in web development. Which should you choose?