May 31, 2020Are my Component Names Too Long? Vue.js Component Naming Best PracticesWhen naming your (Vue.js) components, you might sometimes be worried that the names are getting very long. In this article, we take a closer look at how long is too long and what are the most important best practices when it comes to naming your components. What is too long? Jane Manchun Wong from…Vuejs2 min read
May 24, 2020Context and Provider Pattern with the Vue 3 Composition APIThe React Context API provides a way to share properties that are required by many components (e.g., user settings, UI theme) without having to pass a prop through every level of the tree (aka prop drilling). Although Vue.js does not provide the same abstraction out of the box, in this…Vuejs3 min read
May 10, 2020Stale-While-Revalidate Data Fetching Composable with Vue 3 Composition APIWhen building apps that rely on data from an API, two things are essential: we want our data to be fresh, and we want it fast. The stale-while-revalidate caching pattern helps us to strike a balance between both. If our cache already contains a copy of the requested information, we…Vuejs4 min read
Jan 21, 2018Money in Open SourceOn last weeks Scriptconf, Evan You, the creator of Vue.js, spoke about his journey to full time open source. …Open Source5 min read
Nov 26, 2017Git, the pedantic wayWhen people think about programmers, they think of pale nerds who sit in front of their computers and write code all day long. As we all know, this couldn’t be further from the truth. …Git9 min read
Jun 12, 2017Monorepos in the WildMonolithic approaches to software development have quite a bad reputation, and rightfully so. Modularization and micro services dictate the current landscape especially in the web development world. But still there is a relatively new trend coming up which — at first glance — seems to contradict the push for modularization…Monorepo11 min read
Published in Netscape·May 25, 2017Revolution vs. Evolution: CSS in JSThis is going to be a rather short article with some thoughts about the controversy around CSS in JS. Mark Dalgleish did a great job writing about this topic a couple of days ago: A Unified Styling Language. …Java Script3 min read
