Pros and cons
What Vue Router does especially well — and the limits to anticipate.
Pros
- Official router with full Vue team support.
- Excellent documentation and examples.
- Nested routes and lazy loading native.
- Navigation guards for simple authentication.
- Built-in view transitions.
- MIT licensed and fully open source.
Cons
- Limited to Vue applications (not framework-agnostic).
- Less type-safe than modern routers like TanStack Router.
- Configuration can be verbose for very complex routes.
- Fewer features than Nuxt for full-stack.
Vue Router: when it makes sense.
Vue Router is the official and reliable standard for Vue.js routing.
Keep if
You're building a Single Page Application (SPA) with Vue.js.. You need declarative URL management and navigation.
Challenge if
You use Nuxt.js (Nuxt handles routing).. You're building a very simple app with few routes.

