The best Vue.js Frameworks 2022

General Frameworks

Nuxt.js  42850

Nuxt is an opinionated framework that helps you create performant and SEO-friendly fullstack Vue apps. 

Nuxt focuses on the UI rendering aspect and offers modes for server-side rendering, static site generation or creating an SPA. It presets all of the config and structure you need to make development easier for you.

Static Site Generators

VuePress  21159 & VitePress

VuePress is a static site generator made by the Vue.js team. Originally, it has been developed to power the official Vue Docs. It works with a markdown-centered project structure, and generates pre-rendered HTML that then feeds into an SPA.

VuePress 21159 is a themeable solution that gets you from zero to published in no time. VuePress 1 is built on top of Webpack, but the @next version VuePress 2 also supports Vite.

A lightweight Vue 3 alternative also built by the core team on top of Vite is VitePress (alpha), which is more opinionated and minimal.

Gridsome  8412

Gridsome is an open-sourced static site generator powered by GraphQL and Vue.js. It helps you quickly build PWAs for any data source. You can connect it to headless CMS, local files or APIs.

It takes care of performance optimization by pre-rendering HTML, code splitting, automatic image compression, lazy loading and more.

eCommerce Frameworks

Vue Storefront  10224

Vue Storefront is an open-source headless eCommerce framework that lets you create frontends for any eCommerce backend or CMS. It's an API-first solution based on Nuxt.js, providing a great starting point for eCommerce, including a ready-to-use theme (Storefront UI).

It's an active open-source project adding new useful features and integrations regularly.

VueFront  377

VueFront lets you create an SPA frontend for eCommerce sites and blogs. It currently supports Magento, PrestaShop and OpenCart, as well as WordPress.

Once you installed the VueFront web app and connected it to your CMS, you can choose from ready-made themes for your shop frontend – or customize them to fit your needs. The templates are all structured using Atomic Design.

This solution might be interesting for those with older shops, that want a tech update without having to build everything from the ground up!

UI Frameworks

Vuetify 36339

• ⚡️ Vue 2 only (Vue 3 version in beta)

Vuetify is a material design component framework for Vue.js that empowers developers to create amazing applications fast and efficiently.

It has been around since 2016 and is maintained and extended consistently.

All of the framework components are meticulously crafted to provide an easy to use interface while still maintaining the flexibility for seriously complex implementations. From first time developer to veteran, Vuetify has you covered.

Quasar  22748

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

Build responsive websites, PWAs, hybrid mobile Apps (that look native!) and Electron apps, all simultaneously using the same codebase, powered with Vue.

It offers a set of 120+ components from simple to more advanced like timelines, datatables, calendars, WYSIWYGs and more.

Quasar is modular and open-sourced, and is developed following best practices. It's stable since mid-2019.

PrimeVue  3264

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

PrimeVue is a comprehensive, open-source UI library for Vue with over 80 components. You can use it with Vue 3 as well as Vue 2.

It's design agnostic and offers various themes to choose from (Material Design, Bootstrap, FluentUI,.. – some of them premium), and helps you configure your own with their visual theme designer.

Bootstrap Vue  14180

• ⚡️ Vue 2 only

Bootstrap-Vue provides a very comprehensive implementation of Bootstrap 4 components and grid system.

It offers more than 45 plugins and 85 UI components and is accessible by default by providing automated WAI-ARIA markup.

Buefy  9371

• ⚡️ Vue 2 only

Buefy is a lightweight library of UI components for Vue.js based on the Bulma framework and design. It's like a JS layer for your Bulma interface.

Buefy is only about 60KB (minified & gzipped) and has no other internal dependencies.

Element UI 53028 & Element Plus 18438

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

Element is a component toolkit available for Vue.js, React and Angular.

It does not only support the workflows of developers, but designers and project managers as well – e.g. by offering Axure or Sketch templates.

Element UI is the Vue 2 version, and Element Plus is its successor based on Vue 3.

VueTailwind 1987 & VariantJS Vue 181

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

VueTailwind is a utility-first set of Vue components, created to be customized to fit unique application designs. This means that you are not bound by any pre-defined style like with Bootstrap or Material design. It comes with configurable classes ready for TailwindCSS – hence the name!

VariantJS is the Vue 3 successor currently in development.

We're absolute Tailwind fans, so we think these libraries will be interesting for many.

Vue Material  9699

• ⚡️ Vue 2 only

Vue Material is lightweight framework built exactly according to the Material Design specs.

Oruga 908

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

Oruga is a minimal UI component library that doesn't depend on any CSS framework. It offers a set of components that give you the flexibility to make them your own. Oruga offers a default stylesheet, but it contains only essential rules to display the components.

It's super lightweight and unopinionated. Choose Oruga if you want to use your own existing design system!

Mobile UI Frameworks

Framework7  17048

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

Framework7 is an open-source framework that lets you develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps that look like native apps. It offers iOS, Material Design and Aurora themes out of the box which makes it super easy to create apps with a native iOS or Android look and feel.

Onsen UI  8678

• ⚡️ Vue 2 only

Onsen UI provides a variety of Vue.js components to create hybrid & mobile web apps with a native iOS & Android native look and feel as well.

The components automatically adapt to the respective styles according to the device the app is running on.