Stay ConnectedWelcome to DejaVue, the Vue podcast you didn’t know you needed until now! Join Michael Thiessen and Alexander Lichter on a thrilling journey through the world of Vue and Nuxt.
Get ready for weekly episodes packed with insights, updates, and deep dives into everything Vue-related. From component libraries to best practices, and beyond, they’ve got you covered.
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Today on DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Game and Web Developer Eduard But, who created Geotastic - a Vue-based browser game revolving around geographical knowledge and uses Googles Maps and Streetview API! Starting with Edu's background in programming and web development and initial experiences with Vue.js, we dive deep into how it happened he got into Game Development, which multiplayer game he built first and *why* and eventually talk about Geotastic
With more than 1.5 Million registered users, Edu reveals details about the financial model, how he keeps things up and running, challenges while maintaining and which new game mode will come to Geotastic soon!
Tune in to hear all of the above and more.
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In this episode of DejaVue, Michael is joined by Matt Maribojoc, better known as LearnVue on YouTube.
While Alex is being absent at VueConf US, Matt and Michael discuss topics around learning and understanding new programming features - from figuring out what the latest features are over to how to properly learn them and eventually teach them to their audience.
Tune into the episode to figure out all of the above, in addition to what level of understanding is "necessary" to teach a certain concepts and why content creation is important for libraries, frameworks and open source in general.
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Michael is back from his paternity leave! And he brought three Design Patterns in Vue.js which he and Alex discuss in the 10th DejaVue Episode! Learn more about what Design Patterns are and what the three shown patterns do, when they should be used and which downsides they could bring.
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In DejaVue episode number nine, Tim Benniks joins Alex discussing how he used Vue in huge applications and how Tim and his team built 3000 websites for a single brand that most of you know - Louis Vuitton.
In addition, Tim shares his journey from becoming a nurse to eventually learn web development. Learn which benefits Vue brought compared to the old jQuery application, how Tim and his team migrated a huge system step by step and more!
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Welcome to the eighth episode of DejaVue! In this episode, Alex and (past) Michael recap the highlights of Vue.js Amsterdam, one of the largest Vue.js conference. They discuss the amazing talks, including Evan You's keynote on the 10-year journey of Vue, exciting announcements like NuxtHub, and memorable moments from the conference. They also share their experiences of connecting with the community, live coding challenges, and the unique vibe of this must-attend event.
From FOMO over to talk highlights and next upcoming conferences, all is packed in the 28-minutes.
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In the seventh episode of DejaVue, Alex sits down with Team Lead Marc Backes as our guest. Our conversation takes us on a journey through his career with Programming and Vue.js. Marc shares the beginnings of his coding journey, from the development of Software for a Mexican University and lessons learned from founding a startup and eventually joining a German company as freelance developer.
We also dig deeper into the world of Developer Relations (DevRel) and talk about Marc's transition into this field, as well as major achievements such as the CODE100 Coding Competition and the importance of ambassadors for frameworks such as Vue and Nuxt.
Further, Marc sheds light on his decision to leave DevRel and becoming a Tech Lead at the company he's been with twice beforehand. We explore how this transition addressed certain pain points and dive into practical strategies for handling legacy code and technical debt.
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Welcome to the sixth episode of DejaVue! Alex is joined by another amazing guest - he is a Front-end Developer, Public Speaker and also part of the Nuxt.js core team - Julien Huang.
While Michael is still off on paternity leave, Julien and Alex talk about how Julien started to code (during COVID 😲) and when he dabbled into open source, which culminated in joining the Nuxt team and regularly contributing.
One of the key feature that Julien is working on are Server Components - so of course the rest of the episode revolves around them. What are they? How do they work? And when should you use them? Julien will go in-depth on all these questions, give some behind the scene looks and "do's and don'ts" advice too!
Eventually, the future of Server Components is discussed.
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Welcome to the fifth episode of DejaVue! While Michael is on paternity leave after becoming a father, Alex is joined by a special guest, Patrick van Everdingen, Full Stack Developer, Speaker, Panel Host an Co-Founder of CareerDeck.
In this episode, we talk about how Patrick started his Vue- and Nuxt-based side project, CareerDeck - and how it grew from an idea at a pool in Italy to a full-fledged application. From the initial idea to the current state of the application, we discuss the tech stack, the challenges, and also the future of CareerDeck.
Learn why Patrick chose Vue and Nuxt, why decided to rebuild the application again and how he uses AI to create real value for the users of CareerDeck.
Eventually, Patrick turns the tables and asks Alex about his thoughts on the future of Nuxt and how it compares to other frameworks like Laravel or NestJS, as well as the role of plain Vue in the ecosystem.
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Welcome to the fourth episode of DejaVue! From a Nuxt topic last week, Michael and Alex jump into a plain Vue.js topic again, or would you say... teleport?
Yes, correct! The Teleports feature from Vue 3 will be explored - from its use cases to the native HTML dialog tag. The two hosts also cover how Teleports were created, even back in Vue 2, and talk about a Nuxt implementation too.
Learn more about Teleports in this episode of DejaVue!
Post-podcast note: The Popover API is now available in all major browsers!
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Welcome to the third episode of DejaVue! After talking about an open source SaaS the last time and hearing a lot about Nitro, Alex and Michael dive deeper into the server framework which powers not only Nuxt but also other frameworks like Analog or SolidStart. Learn more about what Nitro is, the difference between Nuxt and Nitro and amazing features it offers, no matter if you use it standalone or with Nuxt.
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