Vue

Raised as a usability problem by 26 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 23 threads.

People raised many different problems with Vue, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 27 complaints

Wrapping components around libraries like PrimeVue is painful because TypeScript types aren't supported properly2025-11-08
Slots are annoying to use and hardly visible in code completion2025-03-08
Too many redundant entities make Vue hard to learn and understand2024-02-14
Sharing data between components needs cumbersome import/export and complex subscription patterns2023-10-21
Charts library and dropdown menu libraries are hard to get working in the stack2023-10-18
Updating state requires different mechanisms, some easy and some involving complicated function calls2023-10-16
Vue 3 build pipeline and Vite setup cause more debugging than actual development2023-07-08
Must re-learn which properties go where after breaks from the code2023-03-27
Must use Vue's own if and for constructs instead of plain JavaScript2022-12-02
Too many overlapping ways to do the same thing, so developers spend time on framework choices2022-12-02
Having to write .value everywhere is ugly and causes endless bugs2022-09-09
Storybook breaks out of the box, needing days of tooling fixes2022-07-03
Docs riddled with advanced concepts, no lifecycle or dataflow diagrams, hard to learn basics2022-05-06
Auto-imports break tooling and editors, which keep needing patches2021-11-12
Typos produce stack traces full of Node internals, hard to debug2021-11-11
Learning curve around reactivity; lifecycle hooks don't await promises, causing race conditions2021-08-10
Template language is messy, poorly tooled, and makes components need several files2021-08-10
Template syntax follows hard-to-discover rules and scoping, so it confuses developers2019-12-11
Props typing is awkward, lacks default values, and gives confusing type errors2019-06-24
Marshalling server data into components through attribute syntax is painful and awkward2019-03-19
Dynamic component rendering requires memorising edge-case behaviour that React handles intuitively2019-02-01
Hard to optimise and profile because framework magic hides slow code2019-01-30
Documentation was hard to follow, making non-trivial Vue examples hard to understand2018-12-26
Templating requires strict structure, making complex HTML tables hard to build2018-08-20
Couldn't find a good way to auto-focus form inputs when shown2017-11-11
Screen flickers around ten times at the end before scrolling continues2017-04-29
Pressing End jumps back to top; accidental scroll-to-end traps user in loop2017-04-29