In this episode Wes and Scott talk about VueJS - what it is, how it compares to other frontend frameworks, and how to get the most out of it.

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Show Notes

2:22 - What's the deal with VueJS?

Combines ideas from Angular 1, React and Blaze
Ease of Angular 1
App structure of React

8:02 - Components

Template syntax is similar to handlebars
- aka {{stuff}}
v-bind:property
- v-bind:property or simply :bind allows you to dynamically bind a value to a property
Props
- Props must be declared before they can be used in a template.
Script tag
- Where imports happen
- Where props are defined, computed properties, action events and lifecycle
Actions
- v-on:click="doSomething"
- @click="doSomething"
- These will run a doSomething event defined in your script export via methods
Lifecycle
- How does data fetching work?
CSS
- Can be scoped to file by adding <style scoped> to your property
Global Registration
- You can register a global component and not have to import it

36:38 - Features

CLI
- Easy to use when creating new projects
Animations
- Baked in to core
- A transition component wraps your code and just have a v-if on the element you are transitioning
- There is also more intense javascript options via v-on
Routing
- 1st party router vue-router with support for 3rd party routers
Global State
- Vuex

45:57 - Ecosystem

Nuxt — AKA Next.js for Vue
Gridsome — AKA Gatsby for Vue
Native?

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