Returning guest, Drew Baker is the Founder and Technical Director at Funkhaus. He joins Steve on this week's episode to discuss his experiences in using Nuxt. He talks about its useful features and goes into detail about its benefits. Additionally, he talks about how he runs his applications using Nuxt  SponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Linksfunkhaus.us  SocialsLinkedIn: Drew BakerTwitter: @drewrbaker_ PicksDrew - GT...

Jakub Andrzejewski is a Senior Developer & Dev Advocate at Vue Storefront. He joins the show alongside Steve to talk about performance in Nuxt and Vue. He begins the show by diving into the concept of performance, how to maintain a high-performing website, and providing the best user experience SponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership LinksContinuous performance audits in Nuxt with Lighthouse CI and Github ActionsZero...

Uche Azubuko is a lead frontend engineer at OneLiquidity and a STEM educator passionate about having specific pursuits, advocating for women in tech, community building, and teaching people better ways to live and work. He joins the show to discuss his article, "How to Use TypeScript with Vue.js: Your Go-to Guide". He starts off by talking about some of the projects in which he would use Typescript.  SponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs...

Daniel Roe returns to the show alongside guest host Drew and Steve to talk about the new releases and changes in Nuxt. He begins by explaining the difference between Nuxt and Nuxt Labs. He also talks about migrating from Nuxt 2 to Nuxt 3. Moreover, he tackles future projects and plans for the framework.  SponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership LinksNuxt👋 Welcome to NuxtDaniel RoeTwitter: @danielcroeTwitter: @drewrbaker_Run Studio...

Most software developers have done freelancing at some point in their careers, so today, Steve and Drew get together to discuss what is involved in freelancing. They cover topics such as how to find work, how to price it, how to get paid, and everybody's favorite topic, paying taxes. They finish with picks, and the high point of every episode, Steve's dad jokes of the week. SponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. MartinBecome a Top 1%...

Steve sits down with returning guest host Drew Baker to talk about what makes a good programmer. They each list their top five characteristics and find that there is a lot of crossovers between their lists, and as always, go down a few rabbit trails on things like code comments. They end with Steve's famous dad jokes and some new exciting CSS features. On YouTubeWhat Makes A Great Programmer With Drew Baker - VUE 207 SponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book Club starting with Clean...

Debbie O’Brien is a Senior Program Manager on the developer division community team at Microsoft. She returns to the show with Steve to talk about the Microsoft tool called “Playwright”. It is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. Moreover, they go into how the testing works, its useful features, and how it has more advantages than other testing solutions. SponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. MartinBecome a Top 1% Dev with a...

Steve talks with Adam Jahr of Vue Mastery about online Vue training. They talk about the history of Vue Mastery, how it is structured, and the details of what goes into making the fantastic, professional-looking videos they create. The Magic Of Vue Mastery with Adam Jahr - VUE 205 | YouTube Video Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links VoV 108: Inside Vue 3 with Gregg...

Steve sits down with guest host Drew Baker to talk about their experiences and tips about getting hired as a web developer these days. Steve covers his experiences both as a job seeker and the person doing the hiring and along with Drew, tells some great - and not-so-great stories about job hunting from both sides. Along the way, they provide some (hopefully) helpful tips on job hunting, such as how to write cover letters and resumes, and what employers are looking for as you go through the...

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Steve and special returning guest host Erik Hanchett sit down with John Leider of VuetifyJS to talk about the recent 3.0 release of Vuetify.  They discuss the conversion from Vue 2 to Vue 3, the people behind Vuetify, and some of the ways Vue 3 makes things easier in Vuetify.  Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Vuetify 3.0 docs VoV Episode 110 VoV Episode 156 VoV...

Today, Steve talks with Lane Wagner, creator of boot.dev, and online programming school. After getting distracted by the fact that Lane's first name reminds Steve of "Better Off Dead", they discuss how the concept of functional programming is or isn't actually used in the composition API in Vue 3, along with the awesomeness of Vite and Lane's experience in upgrading from Vue 2 to Vue 3. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C....

When writing a Vue application, debugging is a very effective tool for figuring out the cause of a problem. Steve talks with Cecelia Martinez about her recent talk at Vue Conf about all of the various tools that are available to help debug javascript applications and some Vue-specific options. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links How to debug Vue Apps -...

David Neal is a web developer who started to learn to draw as a way to liven up his conference talks. Along the way, his drawing skills and reach have grown, and he uses those skills in multiple avenues. David talks about his history in tech and drawing, how he learned, and how it has become an effective rule for him. He and Steve discuss their love of dad jokes and David's love of bacon, and how he lost weight eating nothing but bacon. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End...

Along with returning guest host Luke Diebold, Steve talks with Laravel framework creator Taylor Otwell, They cover the history of Laravel, the Laravel ecosystem, how and why Taylor chose to integrate it with Vue, how Laravel and Vue are now used and distributed as part of Jetstream and InertiaJS, and even how Laravel got its name.  Along the way, they cover topics such as Narnia, Star Trek, and end with great dad jokes. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links GitHub:...

In this episode, Steve sits down with Silvan Mühlemann and talks about his history with Vue. They cover a couple blog posts of Silvan's where he uses Vue to generate various PDF types, and then talk about his development history and how he and his company got into Vue. They with Silvan's picks of some great AI tools, and of course, Steve's fantastic dad jokes. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Silvan Mühlemann Mühlemann&Popp - digital business models Events -...

Today we talk with Denise Gürsoy, a full stack developer from the Netherlands, currently working as a GO developer. We discuss his Medium article about implementing alternate methods of calling APIs in Vue.js. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links API calls in Vue.js GitHub: denizgursoy Deniz GÜRSOY  Picks Charles- Irish Gauge Charles- JavaScript Remote Conference 2022 Charles - How to Stay Current Course (coming soon) Charles - Book Club for developer books (coming...

Steve sits down with Vue developer Shashikant S. Wagh to talk about his Vue Sortable Table. They discuss the various config options and the main selling point that allows the user to re-order items in the table via drag and drop. Shashikant makes a very old-school book pick, and as always, Steve has his great dad jokes. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Introducing Vue Sortable Table GitHub - shashikant-wagh/vue-sortable-table GitHub - SortableJS/Sortable LinkedIn:...

Today we talk with Fred Schott, the co-creator of Astro. Being involved with open source web development for a decade, and working on several teams at Google, including Chrome and Polymer, he is now one of the biggest promoters of Astro. We talk about how Astro, as a static site generator, helps to solve the over-use of javascript on the client side. In this episode... Origin story of Astro Component structure Routing Integration vs. UI frameworks Astro with e-commerce sites Server-side...

Valeri Karpov, maintainer of the popular Mongoose library for Nodejs, visits the show again to talk about a new Vue 3 feature of provide/inject and how it's much better than props, how he uses Vue templates inside Node, tests template output with the cheerio library, and then how he uses plain js, html, and css files for email templates. As always, they end with picks, including a discussion of the The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books, and movies, and as always, Steve tops it off with...

Today we talk with the director of engineering, Jeremy Tomlinson, and communication specialist, Rich Kurtzman, from Fathym.  Described as an “innovation acceleration engine,”  we discuss how Fathym provides the building tools which allow jr. and sr. engineers alike contribute to development.  The platform allows use of your own code, low code, or leveraging Fathym’s no code build tools. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links How to Deploy Vue.js Sites on Fathym Modular...

In today’s episode, we talk with special guest Sanchitha SR about her article titled How to Communicate between Components in Vue.js.  We cover the five ways that we can send data from one component to another:  Using Props Using Events Using Event Bus Using provide/inject Using this.$refs Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Building a Global State Management Library with Andrew Courtice - VUE 171 How to Communicate between Components in Vue.js 7 Component Communications...

Today Steve talks with Val Karpov, the lead maintainer of Mongoose, the most used database framework on NPM.  Val gives a brief history of Promises and Async/Await, talks about how they work.  We learn the reasoning behind the new functionality, and how it works in VUE.  Be sure to check out Vals book and his blog articles on The Code Barbarian and Mastering JS. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Mongoose Mastering Async/Await v1.1.0 The Code Barbarian |...

Steve talks with Milad Dehghan, a Vue developer for Trengo in The Netherlands, to talk about his blog post on creating a VueJS component library. They start with the basic definitions of component libraries (aka design systems) and atomic design principles and then dive into the specifics of how he does it in VueJS They also get into short discussion on Astro, and Steve makes Milad laugh hysterically with his amazing dad jokes. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Create a...

Today Steve talks with Alex Vipond, a front end engineer at Better Help, about the many ways to reuse code and make it cleaner in Vue 2 and Vue 3.  We discus Vue Directives, Vue Mixins, Renderless Components, and Composables, and talk about the benefits of using them.  Be sure to also catch his book on the topic which will be re-released soon with a major update. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Organizing Code by Logical Concern in Vue 3 by Alex Vipond -...