VoV 004: Vue Documentation with Chris Fritz




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Summary: <p><strong>Panel: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Charles Max Wood</li> <li>John Papa</li> </ul> <p><strong>Special Guests: </strong>Chris Fritz</p> <p>In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss <a href="https://vuejs.org/">Vue</a> 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 <a href="https://vuejs.org/v2/style-guide/">Style Guide</a>. 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.</p> <p><strong>In particular, we dive pretty deep on:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Chris intro</li> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/">Vue</a></li> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/v2/style-guide/">Vue Style Guide</a></li> <li>Vue outreach</li> <li>Very active community</li> <li>What are you looking for when curating the documentation?</li> <li>What makes good documentation?</li> <li>Humor in documentation</li> <li>Background in language teaching</li> <li>It’s hard to teach people how to communicate in the different computing languages</li> <li>How to strike balance</li> <li>Documentation is a product</li> <li>Have people look over what you’re writing</li> <li>Tried Vue in <a href="https://www.javascript.com/">JavaScript</a> and <a href="http://www.typescriptlang.org/">TypeScript</a> </li> <li>Future documentation in the works</li> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/installation.html#CLI">Vue CLI</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-enterprise-boilerplate">Vue Enterprise Boilerplate</a></li> <li>Vue ecosystem is exploding</li> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/">Vue Guide</a></li> <li>Doesn’t mind rewriting things in order to get them right</li> <li>And much, much more!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/">Vue</a></li> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/v2/style-guide/">Vue Style Guide</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.javascript.com/">JavaScript</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.typescriptlang.org/">TypeScript</a></li> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/installation.html#CLI">Vue CLI</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-enterprise-boilerplate">Vue Enterprise Boilerplate</a></li> <li><a href="https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/">Vue Guide</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/chrisvuefritz">Chris’s Patreon</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/chrisvfritz?lang=en">@ChrisVFritz</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/chrisvfritz">Chris’s GitHub</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Picks:</strong></p> <p>Charles</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_(film)">Black Panther</a></li> <li>His Forum</li> <li><a href="https://devchat.tv/">DevChat.tv</a></li> </ul> <p>John</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t2GWFegnkQ">Five Things YouTube Videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/">VS Code</a></li> </ul> <p>Chris</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Children-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/1543625584"><em>Children of Time</em> by Adrian Tchaikovsky</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm"><em>Blindsight</em> by Peter Watts</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Eye">Queer Eye</a></li> <li><a href="http://us.vuejs.org/">Vue Conf US</a></li> </ul>