How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
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How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
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#2Why is GitLab putting data into their html? "You can pass your endpoints in through the data attributes." Why store endpoints and other js related data on a DOM element. This sounds like a left over paradigm they kept from their jQuery mindset, or am I mistaken?
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#3> We discovered that VueX makes our lives easier. If you are writing a medium to large feature, use VueX. If it's a tiny feature, you might get away without it.
I feel like this is Vue starting to get the React treatment. React was (and still is!) a very simple library until people realized they needed to do fancy things to make complex applications manageable. Redux came out, everyone fell in love with it, and React+Redux became an official couple. This lead to the perception that React has a steep learning curve because new developers were learning React+Redux without learning React first.
I wonder what Vue can do to avoid the same pitfall.
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#4Why is GitLab putting data into their html? "You can pass your endpoints in through the data attributes." Why store endpoints and other js related data on a DOM element. This sounds like a left over paradigm they kept from their jQuery mindset, or am I mistaken?
Because it works, it's simple (requires not much overhead), and sometimes it's just the best option.
This "hurr jQuery and everything it brought sucks" mentality is not good.
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#5> We discovered that VueX makes our lives easier. If you are writing a medium to large feature, use VueX. If it's a tiny feature, you might get away without it. I feel like this is Vue starting to get the React treatment. React was (and still is!) a very simple library until people realized they needed to do fancy things to make complex applications manageable. Redux came out, everyone fell in love with it, and React…
When did new react developers start learning redux? From my experience that just isn't true.
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#6Why is GitLab putting data into their html? "You can pass your endpoints in through the data attributes." Why store endpoints and other js related data on a DOM element. This sounds like a left over paradigm they kept from their jQuery mindset, or am I mistaken?
Because it works, it's simple (requires not much overhead), and sometimes it's just the best option. This "hurr jQuery and everything it brought sucks" mentality is not good.
HTML is for displaying information, not being littered with things js needs to query for and access. That's the whole point of using something like vue?
Put a function on the vue component that will make a request, keep all the data stuff in vue.
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#7> We discovered that VueX makes our lives easier. If you are writing a medium to large feature, use VueX. If it's a tiny feature, you might get away without it. I feel like this is Vue starting to get the React treatment. React was (and still is!) a very simple library until people realized they needed to do fancy things to make complex applications manageable. Redux came out, everyone fell in love with it, and React…
When did new react developers start learning redux? From my experience that just isn't true.
While I personally avoided this pitfall and learnt React alone before Redux, I have not meet anyone else who did the same. Literally everyone I've talked to about learning React did so (or tried, and failed to do so) with both, up front.
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#8> We discovered that VueX makes our lives easier. If you are writing a medium to large feature, use VueX. If it's a tiny feature, you might get away without it. I feel like this is Vue starting to get the React treatment. React was (and still is!) a very simple library until people realized they needed to do fancy things to make complex applications manageable. Redux came out, everyone fell in love with it, and React…
When did new react developers start learning redux? From my experience that just isn't true.
The majority of complaints I hear (either at work or online) about React are actually about the React ecosystem -- they have trouble with Webpack or Redux and throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think very few people learn React by writing a pure app (e.g. hand-compiled, no state library).
React itself is an incredibly simple library: you can explain the entire thing in a few sentences. In my experience it has an undeserved reputation for being more complex than Vue.
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
When did new react developers start learning redux? From my experience that just isn't true.
While I personally avoided this pitfall and learnt React alone before Redux, I have not meet anyone else who did the same. Literally everyone I've talked to about learning React did so (or tried, and failed to do so) with both, up front.
Wow, I wonder where people are getting the idea that they need to learn Redux. If you start a new job at a company that uses React, then you probably need to learn React + Redux simultaneously. But if you're just picking up React, Redux isn't useful whatsoever.
This image, from React conf years ago, communicates this sentiment perfectly: https://i.stack.imgur.com/tnk9a.png
Re: How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I personally avoided this pitfall and learnt React alone before Redux, I have not meet anyone else who did the same. Literally everyone I've talked to about learning React did so (or tried, and failed to do so) with both, up front.
Wow, I wonder where people are getting the idea that they need to learn Redux. If you start a new job at a company that uses React, then you probably need to learn React + Redux simultaneously. But if you're just picking up React, Redux isn't useful whatsoever. This image, from React conf years ago, communicates this sentiment perfectly: https://i.stack.imgur.com/tnk9a.png
I started with Redux too, because the lead dev on a project said it's a must.
Now I did two projects without and everything is nice and simple.