Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview

Post by mthoms » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 3:17 PM UTC

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jdellinger wrote: post #28

So I recently had the opportunity to use the new composition API, which will come in V3, in a project and want to share my two cents. The project had some limitations tho: no webpack and no typescript (so basically inline x-templates and pure browser JS). Starting of with the composition API was great. No "this", easy reuse of logic via react-like "useXYZ" hooks and a general fast development. But two things really b…

I used to prefer (and by a lot) Vue more than React because of its simplicity and completeness (router + store + everything you need). After trying to use v3 for a new project and trying out the composition API, I've gone back to React. With v3, and the composition API, to me, it lost all of its appeal (being simple, easy and complete). Now to me it has the worst of both worlds... it's not as easy anymore, has a lot…

Post by quicklime » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

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with his level of fame, he would easily make that at one of the top tech firms though.

Yes. He would more than double that by joining at the E5/L5 level at Facebook/Google, which he's almost certainly qualified to do. But given the success of Vue.js and his status in the JS community, he'd probably be a marquee hire at the E6/L6 level. However he would be sacrificing a lot of autonomy to do so, because Vue.js would effectively be developed under the same corporate stewardship model as React and Angular…

Post by azangru » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 3:36 PM UTC

azangru wrote: post #24

genidoi wrote: post #18

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The Docs take Vue to a league of its own. I'd contend that no other JS ecosystem has docs that are as lucid, concise and beginner friendly as Vue's. This intro to VueX (Vue's state management library) is a good example: https://vuex.vuejs.org/

Are you guys all using ad blockers? I open Vue docs — and the right-hand column of the screen is a wall of ads. For comparison, I open React docs — and there are only docs there (unless you count the obligatory BLM header). With a larger font, too, because there, docs don't need to compete for page space with the ads.

Post by agumonkey » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

langitbiru wrote: post #26

apacheCamel wrote: post #10

>Another important thing is that I take long breaks (several weeks) whenever I feel I need to — which is probably harder to do if I’m a full time employee at a company. A "Patreon-funded full-time job position" and the ability to take weeks off at a time? What an amazing career path Evan has taken. He sounds so passionate about Vue and he is fully funded to be able to do it. And what a good project to fund, always mo…

And the money is not bad. https://blog.patreon.com/vue-js-creator-evan-you

Post by sethetter » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

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I experience similar anxiety. For too long I kept my profiles (GitHub/Twitter/..) pseudo-anonymous. So that If I mess up somewhere I don't have to face the consequences after I shut that account down. This is primarily due to social anxiety rather than having any malicious intent. Even my HN account is anonymous. (That I think is holding me back too.) I cannot imagine myself working like Evan.

I think it's a side effect of internet. By working too much in isolation we fear approval or rejection ? It frees us from following others opinions or a group direction but we also lose track of something (I'm blurry I have no precise word for this)