Headliners
First Issue!
Welcome to the first issue of the Vuejs Radar Newsletter! My mission is to bring you the most relevant information coming out of the Vuejs world. I built Vuejs Radar because I use Vuejs on a daily basis, love the framework and wanted to help grow the community. Also, this was really my own way of keeping up to date on the latest releases+news in the industry.
2017 has been a very exciting year already with data showing Vue usage trending higher and overtaking React in specific cases, PWA ready, SSR improvements, Weex+native mobile.... I will do my best to stay on top of all of this and give you digest on a weekly basis.
I hope you enjoy this newsletter. If you have any recommendations or tips please send them my way!
-- Andre Liem @andreliem @vuejsradar
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Latest News
Progress Web What!?
Default support for PWA or Progressive Web Apps is coming to Vue! This is amazing news and shows how "progressive" Vue is (pun intended). If you're not already familiar with PWA's, then just google PWA and read the official google doc on it. PWA is basically a faster better experience which can also offer an alternative to building a native app.
twitter.com
Vue vs React - A Death match battle hosted by Tighten.co
It must be quite common this year for developers to be debating the pro/cons of Vue vs React, as the growth + capabilities of Vue continue to accelerate. I know I've hard a few hard decisions in the past years, ultimately going with Vue because of it's simplicity... but here's an interesting twist with Tighten.co hosting an actual coding death match between 2 senior developers.
tighten.co
Evan shared some benchmarks on SSR performance improvements.
Evan You @youyuxi
twitter.comRan some benchmarks for the new SSR perf improvements. Optimized version on the right! https://t.co/GDMkYPUdTj
Opinion
Should I learn React.js or Vue.js?
A nice post on Quora from Andy Merskin on the advantages of Vue over React.
quora.com
Japan Love for Vuejs
@james_k_nelson
twitter.comIn Japan, #vuejs is already beating #reactjs and #angularjs on Google Trends, and in my personal experience, in dev… https://t.co/gnG3n31CYj
Why Do Developers Now Compare Vue.js to JavaScript Giants Angular and React?
Another article highlighting the differences and benefits of Vue over other frameworks like Angular and React. There's a trend here with what developers appreciate about Vue, and a lot of it seems to fall under the simplicity of Vue.
medium.com
Tutorial & Resources
Create a real time chatroom with VueJS, Laravel and Pusher
Nice tutorial from cloudways on how to create a chatroom VueJS and Laravel. It's amazing how easy it is to build a chatroom, not something that would be so simple a few years ago.
cloudways.com
Vuex State Management
A nice primer on how to get going on Vuex if you're new to it.
codingthesmartway.com
Using Material Design with Vue.js 2
A video and text based tutorial showing you how to integrate the Material design framework into your Vuejs 2.x project.
codingthesmartway.com
Components
The Material Ripple Effect using Vue Directive.
A cool directive you can apply to any element through directives to create the neat Material ripple animation. Material is definitely the hot UI these days. It will be interesting to see what happens when Bootstrap 4 is officially released.
github.io