Steve and Josh discuss Josh’s blog post that compares and contrasts Svelte, Vue, and React. They also talk about Josh’s new game Quina, which is a Wordle clone with a few twists and is built with Nuxt. Josh also displays the influence of Steve’s dad joke juggernaut by bringing his own dad jokes for picks. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue Josh Collinsworth Josh Collinsworth - writing and speaking Quina Picks Josh- Svel...
Jan 25, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve talk with Markus about his project, “Writing Good Tests for Vue Applications.” They discuss how Markus got into programming with PHP, and then later moved into Vue development, as well as how he got into testing. Markus explains how testing “clicked” for him, and that he felt there weren’t enough good resources on writing Vue tests. They then dive into testing with Vue, including component testing, integration testing, and some key concepts for how to write tests. Notes: versch...
Jan 12, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2022 is here to stay, but do you know what tech will? In this episode, Lindsay and Steve run through their top tech choices for this upcoming year. They agree on why Vite is here to stay, Lindsay’s favorite Vite features that’ll change the game, and tech that you NEED to watch closely this year. “I think Vite is gonna take over. I think it’s how programmers are gonna want to code on the front end.” Lindsay In This Episode: Why Lindsay and Steve believe that Vite will be around for YEARS to come ...
Jan 05, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay talks with John Lim about Progressive Web Apps - what they are, and how to utilize them in a Vue application. They talk about John’s work in the construction industry with Vue, and how he started working with Vue applications and writing articles at Vue Mastery. They then dive into PWAs, how best to implement one, and what drawbacks exist in the ecosystem today. They also discuss using Firebase with PWAs for real-time features like notifications. Panel LIndsay Wardell Guest John Lim Adve...
Dec 22, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get Lifetime Access to Mani's Entrepreneurship Pack and Book Club . Use coupon code "GREAT" Mani has summarized hundreds of business books that outline how to build, grow, and operate a business and he shares his expertise with Chuck and the listeners in this special episode. Chuck and Mani discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. They talk about their businesses on a regular basis and Chuck's been getting a lot of requests for entrepreneurship help. He and Mani talk about the 3 pr...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve talks to David Chuka, a developer from Nigeria, about his recent blog post for Vue Mastery that covers the new features that are currently available in the beta version of Nuxt 3 that was recently released. In addition, David brings the dad jokes to add to Steve’s amazing dad joke repertiore, and they talk about a great place to get web animations for those that need them. Panel Steve Edwards Guest David Chuka Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Nuxt 3 is here! What does th...
Dec 07, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Luke discuss their recent projects to build new NPM packages, and the approaches that they use. Luke dives into building authentication composables for Laravel, Firebase, and others, while Lindsay explores the Elm programming language and how to build interoperability with Vue. They also discuss which tools they’re building, what their process looks like, and how to test a library in 2021. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links VuePress...
Nov 30, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state. He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how...
Nov 24, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve sit down with Andrew Courtice, head of front-end engineering at Fathom, do discuss his global state management library Harlem. They talk about how Andrew got started in programming during university, and his move from building desktop applications to the web, as well as his initial start with Vue before it reached 1.0. They then discuss Harlem: what it is, how it works, and what problems it solves. They also discuss the state of global state management in the Vue ecosystem, and...
Nov 16, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve talk with Máximo Mussini, avid Vite user and plugin creator, about his recent work on Îles, a new static site generation framework built on Vite and Vue. They discuss Máximo’s journey into web development, and his work on the plugin ecosystem in Vite (such as Vite Ruby). They then dive into Îles: what it is, what problems it solves, and what it compares with. They also discuss the concept of “Islands Architecture” that was popularized by tools like Astro. Panel Lindsay Wardell ...
Nov 09, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve talk with Martin Malinda about building performant Vue apps. They discuss his article on building a lazy loading component, and explore browser APIs like requestIdleCallback and intersectionObserver. They end with some general guidance on how to build performant websites. Panel Lindsay Wardell Steve Edwards Guest Martin Malinda Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Links <Lazy> rendering in Vue to improve performance Martin Malinda - Medium Twitter: M...
Nov 02, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve talk about other ways to build Vue applications than Vue CLI or Vite templates. Lindsay talks about her experience migrating her personal site from Nuxt to Astro, a new static site generator that provides islands of reactivity in a framework agnostic way. Steve talks about Inertia, and building modern monoliths using Laravel and Vue. They also discuss the release of the Nuxt 3 public beta, and some of the things to keep in mind if you’re looking to migrate from Nuxt 2 to 3. Pan...
Oct 19, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve sits down with Andrew Welch of the devmode.fm podcast and they cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from Andrew’s history with web development and his own companies, to VueJS, Nuxt and Vite, how he uses them with CraftCMS, and what’s he’s looking forward to with Nuxt 3. In addition they discuss the history of a couple of HTML response codes, and Andrew’s unique way of asking guests to explain their subjects on his own podcast. Panel Steve Edwards Guest Andrew Welch Sponsors Dev Influenc...
Oct 05, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve and Solomon talk to Henry Eze about Hygen. Hygen is a generic file generator that allows you to dynamically generate files, such as Vue templates, tests, and any other file needed in a project. In addition, they talk about Docuvaluate, an AI-based program Henry is working on that is used to evaluate contract language and structure. As always, they wrap up the show with picks, including Steve’s famous dad jokes of the week. Panel Solomon Eseme Steve Edwards Guest Henry Eze Sponsors Dev Infl...
Sep 28, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve talk with Eric Gardner, Senior Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, about his journey from graphic design to Vue and the adoption of Vue at the Wikimedia Foundation. They discuss the challenges faced in MediaWiki, the core application behind Wikipedia, and how and why the foundation moved to adopt Vue as its frontend framework of choice. They also discuss some of the future developments at the Foundation, as well as some of the challenges that they still face. Panel L...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve talk to Mike Gallagher, Software Architect at Hip eCommerce, about his blog post exploring server-side rendering and how Nuxt functions under the hood. They explore Mike's specific use case of needing to manage routing on the client, rather than the server, and how he was able to find a solution. They also discuss how Mike approaches difficult problems like this, and how he determines the next steps to find a solution. They explore some of the intricate details of Nuxt, includi...
Sep 14, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay, Luke, and Steve talk about different ways to organize Vue code. They discuss the Composition API, comparing it to the Options API, and the available options for abstracting code from components to be reusable. They also discuss Evan You’s comments about the Composition API becoming the recommended path for using Vue in the future. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Steve Edwards Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv PodcastBootcamp.io Links VueUse Sacrificing Simpli...
Sep 07, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lindsay and Steve talk with Shawn Wildermuth, author and teacher, about how he sees Vue as a tool for building applications both large and small. We talk about his start giving talks at conferences, and pivoting into education as his primary focus in the developer community, and why he prefers to use Vue for his personal projects. We discuss his recently article on different state management techniques, and explore the Composition API and the new features of Vue 3.2. Panel Linds...
Aug 31, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay and Steve talk with Steffen Baumgart, developer of the “Blood on the Clocktower” virtual town square, about how he developed the online interface for this social deduction game. They talk about the game, and how Steffen translated it from in-person to online during the pandemic. They also discuss how its real time features were implemented, and how it handles UX interactions like animations. Panel Lindsay Wardell Steve Edwards Guest Steffen Baumgart Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator L...
Aug 24, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay meets with Lawrence Almeida, Lead Developer at Unbabel, to discuss building web applications with a micro frontend architecture. They discuss basic issues with micro frontends, and how they can be resolved with Single SPA, a framework for orchestrating micro frontends. They also discuss why a team would choose this approach, and some of the downsides to adopting micro frontends. Panel Lindsay Wardell Guest Lawrence Almeida Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Unbabel COMET: A Neura...
Aug 17, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay, Steve, Luke, and Solomon talk with Ariel from Maison Futari about using Vue without building a full single-page application. We talk about using Vue with Wordpress and other backend frameworks to build widgets, as well as using Vue to build web components. We also explore libraries like Livewire and Inertia to integrate with a Laravel backend. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Solomon Eseme Steve Edwards Guest Ariel from Maison Futari Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Yes, thi...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, and Luke talk with David Atanda, product designer and developer. We talk about his path from building products into development, and some of the products he has built. We also talk about how David looks at products and determines what to build next. After that, we discuss his blog post on authentication in Vue, and some of the decisions that need to be made for authenticating an SPA. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Steve Edwards Guest David Atanda Sponsors Dev...
Aug 03, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast The panel talks with prolific JS developer The Jared Wilcurt about developing cross-platform desktop apps using nw.js and vuejs. Jared covers the history of tools to create cross-platform apps, how they all work, and then dives into his GitHub repo that provides the boilerplate to start and create a new app using Vue Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Solomon Eseme Steve Edwards Guest The Jared Wilcurt Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Cross-Platform Desktop Apps (XPDA) GitHub | nwutils...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luke and Lindsay talk with John Leider and Kael Watts-Deuchar from the Vuetify team. We discuss the history of Vuetify development, and the experience of writing Vuetify 3 with Vue 3. We also talk about some of the technical hurdles experienced in the past and present, and how the Vuetify team overcame them. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Guest John Leider Kael Watts-Deuchar Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links VoV 110: Vuetify Next with John Leider Vue Contributor Days February 2021 V...
Jul 20, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay, Solomon, and Luke get to talk with Eric Simons, CEO of StackBlitz about their recent release of WebContainers and the future of Vue in StackBlitz. We talk about how Eric came to tackle the impossible task of running Node in the browser, what to expect for Vue support in StackBlitz, and upcoming developments for the browser-based IDE. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Solomon Eseme Guest Eric Simons Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links StackBlitz Introducing WebContainers: Run Nod...
Jul 13, 2021•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, Luke, and Solomon talk with Mariana Picolo about her experience refactoring a large Vue application. They discuss the problems developers face with ever-growing applications, actionable steps to discuss these issues with management, and solutions for large bundle sizes, coding best practices, and reducing duplicated code in your codebase. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Solomon Eseme Steve Edwards Guest Mariana Picolo Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luke and Lindsay discuss localization with Titus Decali, developer and UI/UX product designer. We discuss his journey from design to development, and dive into his workflow for localizing Vue applications. We talk about tools that Titus uses to improve the localization workflow, reducing the time it takes to set up a translation pipeline. We also discuss handling currencies and SEO. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Guest Titus Decali Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Translate Any Vue...
Jun 29, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Steve, Lindsay, and Luke discuss things they wish they'd known earlier in their careers, and things newer developers could benefit from today. They talk about their early days in programming, and the lessons they learned along the way about being developers. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Steve Edwards Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Picks Lindsay- Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser Luke- Game Making Software - Con...
Jun 22, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luke and Steve talk with Joseph Zimmerman about the future of state management in Vue. Options include the new composition API in Vue 3, the new Pinia library , and the upcoming (still in RFC) Vuex 5. Plus, Steve continues his series of amazing dad jokes for the benefit of the listeners. Panel Luke Diebold Steve Edwards Guest Joseph Zimmerman Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links What’s Coming To VueX? Pinia, an Alternative Vue.js Store You Might Not Need Vuex with Vue 3 Joe Zim's JavaScrip...
Jun 15, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Timi Omoyeni joins the podcast to discuss reactivity in Vue. Timi and the panel discuss the react and the ref methods and how they fit into a reactive paradigm within Vue and wander through Timi's story and the use cases for reactive programming within Vue apps. Panel Lindsay Wardell Luke Diebold Solomon Eseme Steve Edwards Guest Timi Omoyeni Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Timi Omoyeni - Smashing Magazine Timi Omoyeni, Author at LogRocket Blog Reactivity In Vue Twitter: Timi ( @timip...
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