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Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer

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Re: Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer

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Post by Rapzid »

chatmasta wrote: post #2

The Vue ecosystem is incredible, and I still haven't even tried Vue itself. First I got hooked by Vitest, which solved every problem I had with Jest. Then I made a new project with Vite, which solved all the problems I had with my toolchain. And I've yet to use Vuepress, but I look longingly at it every time I cringe about my home-rolled docs sites. The quality of all these tools, combined with my exasperation at the…

Vite is much more than just a wrapper particularly when you factor in the dev server.

Re: Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer

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vore wrote: post #4
chatmasta wrote: post #2

The Vue ecosystem is incredible, and I still haven't even tried Vue itself. First I got hooked by Vitest, which solved every problem I had with Jest. Then I made a new project with Vite, which solved all the problems I had with my toolchain. And I've yet to use Vuepress, but I look longingly at it every time I cringe about my home-rolled docs sites. The quality of all these tools, combined with my exasperation at the…

I don't think Vite is really part of the Vue ecosystem. Vue is Vue, and Vite works with e.g. React or Svelte.

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Re: Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer

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Post by tommiegannert »

chatmasta wrote: post #2

The Vue ecosystem is incredible, and I still haven't even tried Vue itself. First I got hooked by Vitest, which solved every problem I had with Jest. Then I made a new project with Vite, which solved all the problems I had with my toolchain. And I've yet to use Vuepress, but I look longingly at it every time I cringe about my home-rolled docs sites. The quality of all these tools, combined with my exasperation at the…

Consider Nuxt instead of Vuepress/Vitepress. If you want the built-in theme in Vitepress, it's great, but if you want to make your own, using Nuxt with the Content plugin is probably better. I found the strong separation between theme and content to be too great, and if I have a docs SSG site using Vitepress and a webapp SSR site using Nuxt, I can't share themes easily anyway.

At least that was my conclusion starting with Vitepress, and ending up with Nuxt 3.

https://nuxt.com/

https://vitepress.dev/ (they haven't decided if they are going to replace Vuepress or not: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress/discussions/548)

Re: Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer

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Post by beebeepka »

I admire the guy because he went to create the framework that I would have created, if I was as smart.

It's fast and easy to use if you know what you are doing. Especially awesome with Vite. To hell with the flux pattern and all related borderline religious crap

Re: Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer

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Post by rk06 »

timetraveller26 wrote: post #18

Evan history is really inspiring, he is certainly living the dream of living of open source but it's well deserved after all the hard work he put into Vue.

hard work, talent and above all, passion & dedication. I can imagine Meta/Google etc offerring him a lot more $$$ than he is earning at the moment. it takes real passion to ignore that and continue on the "road less travelled"
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