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If you don't know vue.js, you can check it out here. Vue.js is a rather small framework (20KB compressed and minified) that focuses on the "view" part of the application (that's why it's pronounced /vjuː/, like "view" - just in case you wondered). Additionally, there are plenty of resources, plugins and so on that you can use to customize it to your needs (a comprehensive list is available here: awesome-vue). So let's start:
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InversifyJS
A powerful and lightweight inversion of control container for JavaScript & Node.js apps powered by TypeScript.
As mentioned before, vue only concentrates on the view part of your application. So the next thing I usually tend to do is to introduce dependency injection and for this task, I absolutely love inversify.js although people are discussing on how to proceed with future maintenance. It's very well established and plenty of larger projects are using this, so that I'm optimistic that even if the maintainer does not support it in the future, there will be forks or other ideas to further support this framework.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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The next thing to tackle for a scalable application is, that we want to have a well written component that is easy to read and to reuse. Vue components are usually single file, which has it's benefits (e.g. if you want to change some css, and then html and oh, you also need to introduce this property in typescript...). It's also easier to maintain some code standard about how large a component should possibly become, if you had single file components (e.g. >250loc => linter error). To additionally increase readability, I like to use typescript class components flavoured with vue property decorators.
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Comparable to angular, the vue environment also has a cli that you can use to generate an application according to your needs. Even better, you can choose what tools you like to use and you can configure it to your needs (e.g. webpack) without ejecting the configuration. A simple command
