The Vue ecosystem in 2025

Vue remains a top choice for building modern web apps in 2025. With a mature ecosystem, choosing the right tools can boost your productivity and app quality. This post highlights the essential libraries and utilities for Vue projects in 2025.

Published on: Monday, August 18, 2025

Core Libraries & Tools

These are the bread and butter of almost every Vue project. By combining Vue Router, Pinia and Vite, you have the basis for a solid project that can easily scale.

Library	Description
Vue Router	Official router for Vue, essential for SPAs with client-side routing.
Pinia	Recommended state management, simpler API than Vuex, better TypeScript support.
Vite	Default build tool, fast cold starts and instant hot module replacement resulting in a fantastic Developer Experience.

UI Component Libraries

With a UI component library, you save development time, ensure UI consistency, and access pre-built, tested, and accessible components instead of building everything from scratch. Vuetify is a solid first choice for Vue projects because it provides a comprehensive, Material Design-compliant, accessible, and highly customizable component library with strong TypeScript support, active community backing, and enterprise-ready features. This makes it ideal for both rapid development and scalable applications. But be aware of the bloated code that you might be importing.

Library	Description
Vuetify	Material Design components, expanded themes, TypeScript support.
Quasar	Multi-platform (SPA, PWA, mobile, desktop), comprehensive components.
PrimeVue	80+ UI components, data tables, calendars, charts.
Element Plus	Enterprise-focused, successor to Element UI, Vue 3 optimized.
Naive UI	Modern, clean, customizable components.
Buefy	Lightweight, based on Bulma, modern and stylish.

Specialized Libraries

Especially VueUse is an interesting library to add to your project as it includes hundreds of helper composables and helper functions that are commonly used in a Vue project.

Library	Description
VueUse	Collection of essential Vue Composition Utilities.
Radix Vue	Headless, accessibility-first component primitives.
Vue Chartjs	Data visualization with Chart.js integration.

State Management & Utilities

These are some honorable mentions as it’s mostly older applications that will still use Vuex for their state management and Axios for making API requests. A lot of people are now looking at Pinia and the Fetch API that is now supported by browsers so that you don’t even need a separate library.

Library	Description	Alternative
Vuex	Legacy state management, largely replaced by Pinia.	Pinia
Axios	HTTP client for making API requests.	Fetch API

Testing & Development

The combination of Vitest with Vue testing library is a powerful one. Thanks to vitest, your tests will run extremely fast. And with Vue Testing Library, you can query the DOM in the same way the user would. The utilities from Vue Testing Library allow you to find elements by their label text, finding links and buttons from their text, and assert that your application is accessible.

Library	Description
Vitest	Fast unit-testing framework for Vite.
Vue testing library	Light utility functions on top of `@vue/test-utils`, in a way that encourages better testing practices by using accessible selectors.

Conclusion

The Vue ecosystem in 2025 offers powerful, scalable tools for every need. Use this guide to pick the best libraries for your project and stay ahead in Vue development. Happy coding!

I'm a frontend developer specializing in React, with a background in Vue, Angular, and some fullstack work (NodeJS & C#). When I'm not coding, you'll find me running, enjoying music, taking pictures, or playing boardgames and tabletop RPGs like Dungeons&Dragons. These days, my biggest adventure is raising my amazing son with my beautiful wife. On this blog, I'll share my insights on tech, code snippets, hobbies, and more.