Episode 6: VoV 006: Creating a Vue Plugin with Ramsay Lanier

Views on Vue

English - April 10, 2018 10:00 - 52 minutes - 50.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 5: VoV 005: Vue in the Enterprise with Chris Fritz

Next Episode: Episode 7: VoV 007: Testing Vue.js with Cypress with Gleb Bahmutov

Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Cher Stewart
Chris Fritz

Special Guests: Ramsay Lanier

In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss creating a Vue plugin with Ramsay Lanier. Ramsay is a front-end developer for Novetta and spends most of his time turning fancy data into cool visualizations. He originally got his start in programming with React and is a new convert over to Vue. He talks about why he decided to create his Vue plugin and what steps he took to create it. This episode is great for people wanting to learn more about plugins and when they can best be used.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ramsay intro
Recent Vue convert
Got his start with React
Side project: WordExpress
What is a Vue plugin?
How do you get started creating a Vue plugin?
Apollo GraphQL
Parsing
How did you know you needed a plugin?
Don’t have to be an expert in Vue to create a plugin
What was the most difficult part of building it?
Getting started was the hardest part
Vue Plugins Documentation
Likes the Vue plugin implementation over React’s
Wanted something convenient
Shortcodes are what can be expanded upon
Vue.use
What does Vue.use accept?
Instance vs Global methods?
Any plugins that you really liked?
Vue Router
Did anything surprise you when looking up plugins?
Vuex
Plugin tests
And much, much more!