Vue.js vs XSLT in-browser implementation

Vue can easily be integrated with other front-end libraries. This makes it an extremely versatile tool and it's easy to fix its shortcomings or missing features by just plugging in another library.

Very useful.

Vue.js weighs in at 16kb min+gzip.

Since most of the mainstream server-side rendering implementations are synchronous, they can block the server's event loop when the application is complex.

Vue implements streaming server-side rendering, which allows you to render your component, get a readable stream and directly pipe that to the HTTP response. This allows you to have a responsive server and decreases the time your users have to wait before they get your rendered content.

Although you can build components in JavaScript files, you can also use inline handlebars-like templating in your HTML views where simplicity is often a more sane choice.

Since the template-to-virtual-DOM and compiler can be separated, you can compile the templates in your machine and then deploying only the interpreter which is 12KB minified and gzipped.

You can choose to use either a templating language, or if you feel it's necessary to drop on a lower virtual-dom level, you can use JSX. This is simply done by replacing the template option with a render function.

Or alternatively, you can embed functions inside templates by using the <render> tag.

Starting with Vue 2.0, Vue supports server-side rendering. This helps with SEO a lot, since the views are rendered directly on the server, which are indexed by search engines.

I.e. apply one template on top of another.

With ability to split feature implementation apart from main codebase, development became quite more manageable. Example: for data of particular type you could define own rendering or render refine rules; pipelining allows incrementally change UI by adding/removing elements depend of parameters, data values, previously rendered content.

Only template engine which utilizes multithreading.

In some browsers(IE) XSLT during load is compiled into DLL. In others pre-loaded template allows to skip recurring parsing .

XML when stored, saved outside of JS heap, capable to work with amount of data 100x larger of JSON.

Supported in all browsers, starting from IE5.

XSLT is available as in browser as on server side via various libs including highly optimized for CPU.