bootstrap-vue VS Vue.js

Compare bootstrap-vue vs Vue.js and see what are their differences.

bootstrap-vue

BootstrapVue provides one of the most comprehensive implementations of Bootstrap v4 for Vue.js. With extensive and automated WAI-ARIA accessibility markup. (by bootstrap-vue)

Vue.js

This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core (by vuejs)
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bootstrap-vue Vue.js
43 381
14,452 206,811
0.1% 0.2%
5.1 7.9
3 months ago 8 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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bootstrap-vue

Posts with mentions or reviews of bootstrap-vue. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.
  • 10 UI Libraries You Should Explore for Your Next Vue.js Project
    7 projects | dev.to | 29 Oct 2023
    4. Bootstrap Vue Bootstrap Vue combines the power of Bootstrap, a popular CSS framework, with Vue.js. It provides a wide range of components and styling options. Check out the Bootstrap Vue website to learn more.
  • [AskJS] UI libraries either backed by enterprises/quick fix of issues/has almost no issues with default styling that is customizable
    3 projects | /r/javascript | 3 May 2023
    Vue (BootstrapVue)
  • What is the story with BootstrapVue now?
    2 projects | /r/vuejs | 1 Mar 2023
    You say that Afaik is the creator? I didn't see him listed as a major contributor on github: https://github.com/bootstrap-vue/bootstrap-vue/graphs/contributors . Do you happen to have his Github profile link?
  • Vue 3 UI Framework recommendations?
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 25 Jan 2023
  • Vue or React? Which one is easier to pick up?
    4 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 18 Jan 2023
    For me personally one of the dealbrakers was bootstrap-vue still being stuck with Vue v2 / Bootsrap v4 to this day. react-bootstrap supports Bootstrap v5 since 2021 october.
  • Top UI libraries for Vue JS in 2023
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2023
    Bootstrap-Vue: A UI library that provides a range of components based on the popular Bootstrap framework, including forms, buttons, and navbars.
  • Fragen bezüglich Flask, Zahlungsgateway, Design und JavaScript
    2 projects | /r/de_EDV | 4 Dec 2022
  • Noob question: What do you use to build your front ends?
    2 projects | /r/laravel | 12 Jul 2022
    BootstrapVue is the bundle: https://bootstrap-vue.org/
  • Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2022
    Yes. Please have the courtesy to feedback with a roadmap or prio of the issue. Especially for popular issues.

    Asking, politely, for this should not label you as entitled freeloader. It is important input to make an informed decision wether one should just wait for the fix, workaround it, contribute a PR yourself, fork the component or drop it and consider alternatives.

    One has to be careful with estimates though so they don’t become false promises. All respect to these maintainers but if I have to give one concrete example, consider following issue in a very popular Vue component, https://github.com/bootstrap-vue/bootstrap-vue/issues/5196 creating a upgrade deadlock for almost the entire Vuejs community. It’s the type of dependency that get so entrenched in everybody’s application that upgrading or moving away from it becomes very expensive and requires long term planning. As such, hundreds of comments there asking for estimates and also dozens of heavy names offering help in forms of PRs, forks or donations, all on a very polite level, but the maintainers kept promising it will be done “very soon” for almost 2 years straight. It appears the last months the war has been adding more obstacles so all respect for that, but even before the roadmap was hopelessly unpredictable.

    I get it, as a volunteer other things in life often have higher prio, estimates tend to be optimistic and you might want to work on things in no particular order at all. What’s important is to be transparent, polite and communicate.

  • Why We Switched from Python to Go
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2022
    What's wrong with Angular? It being largely "batteries included" seemed pretty nice and I really liked the fact that TypeScript was a first class citizen - React and Vue both feel like it's been kind of tacked on, especially when a lot of additional libraries out there don't really have proper bindings.

    That said, personally I also think that React kind of went downhill for a bit due to the hooks (after seeing a few projects become really nightmarish to debug due to render loops without clear causes for them, after people sprinkled one too many hooks in there).

    Oh, and the Vue 2 to 3 migration is also a bit problematic because still many UI component libraries haven't been migrated over - currently actually using PrimeVue on a project because BootstrapVue still doesn't have proper support https://github.com/bootstrap-vue/bootstrap-vue/issues/5196

Vue.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vue.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.
  • Here are the 10 projects I am contributing to over the next 6 months. Share yours
    13 projects | dev.to | 13 Apr 2024
    Vuejs
  • 🎄 Top Front-End Frameworks in 2024 Worth Your Time and Effort to Master
    5 projects | dev.to | 13 Dec 2023
    Vue.js is a big favorite for making websites because it's easy to use and fits in well with other stuff. Many people worldwide are using it, and the community keeps growing.
  • Angular vs. React vs. Vue.js: Comparing performance
    16 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2023
    Vue has a thriving ecosystem with a wide range of third-party libraries and plugins available for extending its functionality. These libraries cover everything from state management to routing, making it easy for developers to find solutions to common problems and enhance their development workflow. As of this writing, Vue has 200k GitHub stars.
  • Top 10 "Must Have" Repositories for Web Developers
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 Jul 2023
    6. Vue.js
  • Vue 2 vs vue 3 - The Differences
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Jun 2023
    I have got the privilege of working on Vue 2 couple of months ago and its really amazing framework to work with .
  • Angular v16 Is Here
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023
    Angular is as little innovative for web frameworks as Firefox-ESR is for browsers. It merely keeps copying features from other frameworks - just many years later. It is a chronically outdated framework that always struggles to keep up with its competitors. It would be ok if those were deliberate design decisions, but if the features get copied some day anyway, what is the point? Why not do it the right way from the start?

    For example, this update brings us computed properties, an essential feature for any complex performant web application that was made popular by Vue.js 10 years ago [1]. And now in 2023 we get it in Angular, essentially a confirmation by its devs that its lack has always been a design error.

    I also cannot understand the "mature" argument. For example, it took five years for documentation on `` to arrive [2]. This is something I'd expect from the side project of a lone programmer, not an enterprise-level framework.

    The only upsides of Angular are its "batteries included" approach and the (debatable) default of RXJS, while the downsides are plenty.

    [1] https://github.com/vuejs/vue/tree/218557cdec830a629252f4a9e2...

  • What's happening with the forum?
    2 projects | /r/vuejs | 13 Apr 2023
    It's down since months. https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues/11867
  • How to scrape the web with Puppeteer in 2023
    5 projects | dev.to | 7 Mar 2023
    { "user": "vuejs", "repo": "vue", "url": "https://github.com/vuejs/vue", "stars": 201555, "description": "🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.", "topics": [ "javascript", "framework", "vue", "frontend" ], "label": "repository", "commitCount": 3544 }
  • What is Vue?
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2023
    Vue.js is a progressive open-source MVVM frontend JavaScript framework that is designed to be implemented incrementally since the core library focuses only on the presentation layer. Nevertheless, this framework is used for building UI (user interfaces) and complex single-page applications with modern tools and libraries to support them. It enables you to take advantage of libraries for client-side routing and state management when you need it.
  • How worried are you about AI taking over music?
    13 projects | /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers | 3 Feb 2023
    Vue 356 contributors 202k stars

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bootstrap-vue and Vue.js you can also consider the following projects:

lit - Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.

primevue - Next Generation Vue UI Component Library

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have [Moved to: https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus]

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

Preact - ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

knockout - Knockout makes it easier to create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript

Aurelia 1 - The Aurelia 1 framework entry point, bringing together all the required sub-modules of Aurelia.