Changelog

A new static site generator baby is born. It’s highly inspired by Gatsby.js (React based) but built on top of Vue.js If Gatsby intrigues you, but React isn’t your thing… check out Gridsome. It has the same concept of a universal GraphQL for all of your data sources.

Hot on the heels of Rails’ announced rich text editor comes tiptap for Vue, which is built with Prosemirror. But what does “renderless” even mean? With renderless components you’ll have (almost) full control over markup and styling. I don’t want to tell you what a menu should look like or where it should be rendered in the DOM. That’s all up to you. There is also a good article about renderless components by Adam Wathan. That’s a great idea as long as you provide some default/swappable rendering for folks who just want to get started quickly. Full demo of tiptap in action right here.

Just visit web-riimote.herokuapp.com on a laptop/desktop AND a smartphone. Your smartphone will be the controller and your laptop/desktop will be the main display. You don’t have to install an app or anything. Pretty cool! Video demo here.

A searchable and ranked collection of the best Vue.js libraries. Inspired by Ruby Toolbox and built with Vue (duh) and Rails. Have a Vue project that’s not on the list? Tweet @vuetoolbox and they’ll get you added.

Good news — the next generation of Vue CLI, the standard build toolchain for Vue applications, is here. Evan You writes: Vue CLI 3 is a completely different beast from its previous version. The goal of the rewrite is two-fold: Reduce configuration fatigue of modern frontend tooling, especially when mixing multiple tools together; Incorporate best practices in the toolchain as much as possible so it becomes the default for any Vue app. This means that any Vue CLI 3 project comes with out-of-the-box support most of today’s preferred ways to build and ship applications.

This interview with Evan You (founder of Vue.js) is all about the path that led him to being able to work full time on open source. It’s a good read 👍 (Want to dive deeper? We’ve interviewed Evan on The Changelog #184 as well as Request For Commits #12)

Select a device, upload your image, and get a beautiful image you can share with the world.

I’ve been closely watching CodeSandbox and have been thoroughly impressed with the work Ives van Hoorne and the 75+ contributors have put into this online code editor for … React, Preact, Vue, and more. I’ve been thinking about getting Ives on Founders Talk to talk about the business model behind CodeSandbox. It seems to have this interesting self baked, pay what you want, Patron model to cover the expenses of CodeSandbox. Most of the features are free with limits, and being a “Patron” lifts those limits + extra features, and supports the costs and development efforts.

A free ebook by Flavio Copes. Here’s the skinny: After spending a lot of time diving into Vue, in preparation for a Vue online course I’m building, I created this free resource that contains a lot of material to help anyone go from zero Vue knowledge to having a pretty good overview of this popular JavaScript frontend framework. The book’s content is behind a newsletter signup. That’s the price of free, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

Vuido makes it possible to create lightweight, native desktop applications using Vue.js. Application using Vuido can run on Windows, OS X and Linux, using native GUI components, and don’t require Electron. Emphasis added. Vuido uses libui under the hood to drive its cross-platform GUI components.

Nikita Sobolev: Optional static typing with flow, jest for unit and e2e testing, docker and gitlab CI, and meaningful docs - is a good recipe for success. If you agree with 👆, then you probably want to give this a spin.

Here’s a shiny new new project from Vue’s creator. There are plenty of static site generators in the wild, but most of them are created with blogging or generic content in mind. VuePress has a specific angle: VuePress is composed of two parts: a minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue’s own sub projects. The default theme looks great (no surprise there) and the supporting documentation/story telling around VuePress is quite impressive as well. But perhaps you’re wondering, “Why not $X?”, where $X is a similar alternative. Here’s why.

Unlike the guide which walks you through building a Vue app in story form, the cookbook is all about focused examples of how to accomplish specific goals with the framework. This is an excellent addition to the compendium of documentation in support of the project, and one that’s worthy of emulation once your framework has a base set of docs that are solid.

Built with VueJS and Express.

Vue.js in the front. Ethereum in the back. It’s a DApp mullet! But why? The author says: By keeping state inside ethereum and using IPFS to deliver HTML, webapps can become nearly indestructible!

What some people don’t not know is that you can incorporate Vue into your project the same way that you would incorporate jQuery, no build step necessary. You don’t have to rewrite the HTML in JavaScript, you don’t have to use webpack, and you don’t have to set up a giant system. In this post Sarah Drasner covers common jQuery use cases and how to switch them over to Vue, and why you’d even want to.