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The Shopware angle
The Shopware 6 administration is Vue. If your team already customises the admin, Vue keeps one mental model across the whole project and any Shopware developer can pick it up. That is a real, boring, valuable advantage.
The hiring angle
React has a bigger talent pool and a bigger ecosystem, especially for complex dashboards and data-heavy back offices. If the thing you are building is really an application with a shop attached, React's ecosystem will save you time.
What actually decides it
Neither framework will be your bottleneck. Your bottleneck will be the API design, the caching strategy and whether anyone wrote tests. Pick the one your team can maintain, then spend the saved argument time on those three things.
Our default
Vue for anything living inside or next to Shopware. React for standalone portals, dashboards and customer back offices. We will happily do the opposite if your team is already good at one of them.
- Vue inside Shopware, React for standalone apps.
- Maintainability beats framework preference.
- The API design will hurt you long before the framework does.
Frequently asked questions
Our default: Vue for anything living inside or next to Shopware, React for standalone portals, dashboards and customer back offices. But the real criterion is who maintains it after we leave. If your team is already good at one of them, that one wins — and we will happily do the opposite of our own default.
Neither will be your bottleneck, and deciding on benchmarks means deciding on the wrong axis. What will actually hurt is your API design, your caching strategy and whether anyone wrote tests. Pick the framework your team can maintain, end the discussion in ten minutes, and spend the time you saved on those three things instead.
Because the Shopware 6 administration is Vue. If your team customises the admin at all, Vue keeps one mental model across the whole project, and any Shopware developer you hire can pick the frontend up on day one. It is a boring advantage — and boring advantages are the ones that still matter in year three.
No. An existing competence beats a framework's home-field advantage almost every time, and retraining a team mid-project buys you nothing a customer can see. React has the bigger talent pool and the stronger ecosystem for data-heavy back offices anyway. Keep what your team is good at, and have the argument somewhere it pays off.
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