Views on Vue

Panel: Charles Max Wood John Papa Special Guests: Chris Fritz In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss Vue documentation with Chris Fritz. Chris is the curator for documentation on the Vue core team, works on a lot of tooling to help support Vue developers, and develops resources such as the Style Guide. They talk about what he is looking for when curating the documentation and what makes good documentation.  Chris originally had a background in teaching as a language teacher with a minor in computer science, and this experience helps him today teach people how to learn the Vue language. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Chris intro Vue Vue Style Guide Vue outreach Very active community What are you looking for when curating the documentation? What makes good documentation? Humor in documentation Background in language teaching It’s hard to teach people how to communicate in the different computing languages How to strike balance Documentation is a product Have people look over what you’re writing Tried Vue in JavaScript and TypeScript Future documentation in the works Vue CLI Vue Enterprise Boilerplate Vue ecosystem is exploding Vue Guide Doesn’t mind rewriting things in order to get them right And much, much more! Links: Vue Vue Style Guide JavaScript TypeScript Vue CLI Vue Enterprise Boilerplate Vue Guide Chris’s Patreon @ChrisVFritz Chris’s GitHub Picks: Charles Black Panther His Forum DevChat.tv John Five Things YouTube Videos VS Code Chris Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Blindsight by Peter Watts Queer Eye Vue Conf US

Panel: Charles Max Wood Erik Hanchett In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss the Nuxt.js, which is a framework for creating universal Vue.js applications, and how you can use it with Vue. They express how flexible this framework is to use and talk about how easy it is to get started with it. They also touch on static site generators and the pros and cons to using these. They end the podcast discussing Erik’s book, Vue.js in Action, which is a beginner-intermediate book on Vue.js. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What is Nuxt.js? Vue Next.js Nuxt.js has flexibility Nuxt.js features What is a universal Vue.js application? Use it for SEO or to get a faster page speed Server side rendering How hard is it to set up? Vue CLI His book Vue.js in Action Will you use this in your day job? Why use Nuxt.js? Jekyll and Gatsby Static site generators About his book Vue is easy to get started with And much, much more! Links: Nuxt.js Vue Next.js Vue CLI Vue.js in Action Jekyll Gatsby React Angular @ErikCH Picks: Charles Softcover Get a Coder Job Course Erik StaticGen.com

Panel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Cher Stewart Erik Hanchett In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss how they each got into Vue and how you can go about learning Vue yourself. They really suggest utilizing the Vue website for tutorials and for help navigating the framework, especially in the beginning. They also discuss many great resources you can use to learn about this framework, especially if you are just starting out, and encourage you to look into them and get started on working with Vue! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Panelist intros Progressive web apps How did you each get into Vue? Vue Ember.js Angular Not wanting to be outdated as a programmer React Recommendations for how to go about learning Vue Using the Vue website Udemy Vue course Vue.js Developers Vue.js news Vue Vixens VueConf US Framework Summit The importance of building a community across frameworks Build a To-Do App with Vue.js 2 Vue.js in Action by Erik Hanchett Sometimes it takes going through a couple books before finding what you really want How are people writing with Vue? Vue is very un-opinionated and progressive ES6 and TypeScript And much, much more! Links: Vue.js in Action by Erik Hanchett Framework Summit DevChat.tv React Round Up Vue Joe Eames Pluralsight Ember.js Angular React Udemy course Vue.js Developers Vue.js news Vue Vixens VueConf US Build a To-Do App with Vue.js 2 ES6 TypeScript @CodeHitchhiker @JosephEames @CMaxW Picks: Charles RE-20 Microphone ATR2100 Microphone Xenyx 802 Mixer Roland R-09 React Dev Summit Framework Summit Joe Counterpart Sagrada Board Game Cher Aquascaping Erik Keybase.io

Panel:  Joe Eames Cher Stewart Special Guests: Evan You In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss the origin story of Vue with its creator Evan You. Evan was born in China and came to the US for college. He used to work at Google’s creative lab as a creative technologist and worked on Meteor. From there, he started to put more effort into Vue and switched over to Vue full-time. They talk with Evan about his thought processes behind creating Vue and how it has changed since its initial conception. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Evan’s background What is Google’s creative lab? Meteor When did Vue start to blow up? Worked on a lot of prototypes at Google The inception of Vue Got his ideas from when he was working with Angular Dirty Checking What made him want to build his own framework What gave him the confidence to create Vue Started as an experiment Everything was added over time The scope grew gradually, not overnight High demand in the community What did the initial versions of Vue look like? Why did you name it Vue? Some planned promotion How did it blow up? The popularity of Vue And much, much more! Links: Evan’s GitHub Picks: Joe Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin Cher Bullet Journal App Evan CodeSandbox Climbing VueConf US