Vue.js, I choose you!

Some time ago...

I was really overwhelmed by the enormous world of javascript. I was taken aback the very moment I dipped my foot in it.

Can you imagine? For almost two years, I am in-denial that I do not need to learn javascript or atleast try writing scripts with it. In my defense, I finished my thesis and graduated on college by just relying on how asp.net C# passes the data to the template and by just using the default javascript files from the templates, boilerplates, and frontend frameworks, as is. Lucky me, the task that I got on the first job that I landed is to create a WEB API. Everything is server side so I didn't have to do anything that concerns frontend development (I slipped through the inevitable again). But.... later on after finishing that project, I was asked to create a webtool for it, with dashboard, stats, etc. For a moment, I thought I can get away with it without writing any Javascript again. I thought Django template will be enough, I was wrong, I wasn't ready, but I have a task to finish. From that moment, I thought to myself, "You need to learn javascript, you need it!".

But before that...

I did what some of you, did too. To search for the very best js framework like no one ever was. [Search Google | top javascript 2017]

Based on that search keyword the top javascript frameworks for 2017 Q2 are ... *drum rolls* Angular, React, Ember, Meteor, Vue, and many more. Everyone has their own top tier JS Frameworks. For me, I just need to get started. So I picked the easiest one that would get me hooked easily. With so many blogs and articles for each of the frameworks, I already have these keywords in mind as I was skimming the articles and blogs: EASY and SIMPLE. So maybe you already know now why Vue.js, I choose you!.

Easy and Simple

For me as a beginner, those words are like a magnet. So I chose it right away. It is very much enough to get me started.

The very first thing that I did with vuejs is to create a Todo application. I found a step-by-step video tutorial of it on youtube:Academind. It was very fun. I didn't imagine that coding with frontend would be very fun and easy. But to be honest, with that video tutorial (<1 hour), with so many magics and all and I was clueless how vue did all of that, I didn't learn much, but my takeaway is I got to experience the awesomeness of Vue.

Since I was really hyped, I just continued my studying and experimenting. I started from the start. Code scripts on jsfiddle, learned about the directives, dom interactions, list rendering, and conditions. After I learned all the basics, I created a simple CRUD application called ideya, a repository of my ideas. My blog also have bits of vuejs in it.

I was really proud of myself after I finished this simple project. But I'm not still satisfied with my skills in Vue. As I am skimming through the documentations, I read about the vue-cli, webpack, components, and many more. I'm not stopping here. There are still lots of exciting things I have yet to explore in this framework.