I agree that tooling could probably be more prominent, so I made a slight modification, adding these resources to a new Tooling section. I've also reorganized the dropdown to follow the order that I think people might need these resources in their journey to learn Vue. I just want a couple other team members to sign off on this one first.

LGTM. My only concern is the entire missing of Vue-templates now, with nowhere to be found throughout the docs. Also, with our docs often praised for being very newcomer-friendly, replacing it with only the most complex template might be – I don't know – a bit weird?

@phanan

My only concern is the entire missing of Vue-templates now, with nowhere to be found throughout the docs.

We do, just indirectly. That same information is available in the Vue CLI readme, which we link to on the installation page.

Also, with our docs often praised for being very newcomer-friendly, replacing it with only the most complex template might be – I don't know – a bit weird?

While that template has the most complex build process, it's also (perhaps counter-intuitively) the one you're least likely to have issues with as a relative beginner, since it does so much for you out-of-the-box and is the best-documented.

My experience is that absolute beginners will have a hard time with a build process, no matter what. If they've never used a build tool or module system, then probably every item in the Ecosystem dropdown below the Devtools will be confusing to them.

For people who are at least a little more advanced, they often become frustrated with Browserify or the webpack-simple template. We simply don't have as robust support for Browserify, so there are more bugs and fewer features. And webpack-simple actually requires knowing more about Webpack, ironically. 😄 If they want to use a CSS preprocessor, for example, they have to do quite a lot of work and know more about the Webpack ecosystem. The webpack template, on the other hand, describes in detail how to work with CSS preprocessors and doesn't require them to change any configuration. They just install the appropriate loaders and peer dependencies, e.g. sass-loader and node-sass.

Does that make sense?

Also a note for the future: I'm thinking we'll be able to replace the link to the Webpack template with one to Vue CLI 3, once that's out, since it will offer the same kind of simple dev experience, but hide away the stuff that looks complex unless you actually need it.

LGTM