Lindsay and Steve talk with Eric Gardner, Senior Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, about his journey from graphic design to Vue and the adoption of Vue at the Wikimedia Foundation. They discuss the challenges faced in MediaWiki, the core application behind Wikipedia, and how and why the foundation moved to adopt Vue as its frontend framework of choice. They also discuss some of the future developments at the Foundation, as well as some of the challenges that they still face.

Panel

Lindsay Wardell
Steve Edwards

Guest

Eric Gardner

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Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki
Getty
Wikimedia Commons
Vue.js has been selected as Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework
Abstract Wikipedia
Vite
Exploring Code Design – VUE 163
Transitioning a Large Front-End Codebase to TypeScript ft. Priscila Oliveira and Mark Story – JSJ 498
Get Started With TypeScript the Easy Way
JavaScript Marathon: Upgrade to Typescript with Vue 3
reMARKable - YouTube
Wikimedia Phabricator
Design Systems Team
Twitter: Eric Gardner ( @ecgardner )

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Lindsay- GitHub | lindsaykwardell/vite-elm-template

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