How to compare with vue-strap?

[ryanaponte]

I love what I see, congrats! But what should a developer be taking into consideration when deciding between vuestrap and vue-strap? Thanks

[kzima]

@ryanaponte Thanks for your feedback.

Vustrap is just a simple js wrapper for Bootstrap 4 and can be easily imported via webpack or browserfy in projects that use frontend frameworks like jQuery, Angular or Ember. But the idea behind Vuestrap is to create a foundation to component libraries built with Vue.js in particular, hence the name :)

Benefits of using Vuestrap over yuchte/vuestrap:

• It uses Bootstrap 4 source files and compile them on the fly in your project. That means smaller footprint if you only need few components in your project. In yuchte/vue-strap you need to load a full boostrap css file, or have to have a separate build process in place (like grunt or gulp).
• It allows your components to be truly themable, so if you set $brand-primary to 'red' in your application theme, all the components that use this variable will compile to 'red', neat! In yuchte/vue-strap you would have to override every single component. This is because it's components rely on external boostrap css file that is already compiled.
• Finally, most of components built with Vuestrap support IE9 by default and can be used for commercial projects that require a better browser support. It is hard to tell if yuchte/vue-strap will support IE9 in the near future (I could not find in the roadmap).

In summary: Vuestrap and yuchte/vuestrap are based on similar concept, but if you need more flexibility in your development or want to create your own custom components, then probably you want to use Vuestrap.

[ryandeussing]

Thanks, very cool.