Both are fine. The differences are organizational.
React and Vue both ship excellent software at any skill level you are willing to pay for. The choice is not technical quality — it is what each framework's shape does to your hiring, your codebase growth and your long-term budget.
The honest differences
| Dimension | React | Vue |
|---|---|---|
| Hiring pool | Deepest in the industry | Smaller, strong in EU/Asia |
| Opinionation | Minimal — you assemble the stack | Integrated — router/state conventions built-in |
| Codebase drift | Higher risk: many right ways | Lower: one mostly-agreed way |
| Ecosystem | Enormous, uneven | Curated, smaller |
| Senior scarcity premium | Seniors plentiful | Seniors scarcer, pricier per head |
Choose React when
Team growth is the plan (deepest hiring pool), the product will want the frontier ecosystem (React Native, advanced meta-frameworks, specialized libraries), or organizational precedent already points there. React's freedom is a feature for senior teams and a liability for rotating juniors — the codebase quality tracks your discipline more than Vue's would.
Choose Vue when
A small stable team will own the product for years (conventions keep it coherent), you value integrated defaults over assembly work, or your hiring region runs Vue-strong. Vue codebases age gently — the "one way to do it" gravity compounds in your favor over time.
The budget translation
Identical specs, similar bands — React and Vue work prices within the same ranges. The differences show later: React drifts without senior discipline (refactor cost), Vue narrows your specialist options (scarcity cost). Neither is a reason to switch from the one your product already speaks.
The tiebreaker that actually matters
Your existing codebase and your existing people outweigh every table above. Greenfield with no constraints? Either — pick by team, not by internet argument. Then hold the choice: framework churn is the most expensive kind.