The best Vue.js Frameworks 2023

General Frameworks

Nuxt.js  45543

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  21571 & VitePress 7783

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 21571 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  8453

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  10215

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  382

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 37229

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

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  23597

• ✅ 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  3822

• ✅ 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.

Oruga 1000

• ✅ 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!

Element UI 53403 & Element Plus 20047

• ✅ 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.

Naive UI 12785

• ✨ Support for Vue 3

Naive UI is a customizable Vue 3 component library. In the words of its creator it's "fairly complete, not too slow and kinda interesting".

Naive UI is written in TypeScript and offers more than 80 treeshakable components – a nice, themeable system!

Bootstrap Vue  14312

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

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.

Vue Material  9763

• ⚡️ Vue 2 only

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

Buefy  9434

• ⚡️ 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.

Mobile UI Frameworks

Ionic Vue 47774

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

Ionic is an open-source toolkit for building native-looking apps for iOS, Android and the web from one single codebase.

Their Vue version provides their UI components including animations and gestures with Vue-specific tooling. Smooth & straightforward!

Framework7  17311

• ✅ 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  8697

• ✅ Support for Vue 2 + 3

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.