{"id":126,"date":"2019-05-08T06:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/a-devday-night-with-gustojs-vue-js-core-member-team\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:58:33","slug":"a-devday-night-with-gustojs-vue-js-core-member-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/frontend\/web-developer\/a-devday-night-with-gustojs-vue-js-core-member-team\/","title":{"rendered":"A DevDay night with GustoJS, Vue.js core member team"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t all started with a tweet<\/a> by Darek Gusto W\u0119drychowski<\/strong>, announcing his presence in the south of Italy. We intercepted the tweet and asked him to join us, to not lose the opportunity of having an international speaker and also a member of the core team of VueJS<\/strong>, one of the most famous frontend libraries of the world.<\/p>\n

Two words about Vue: a project started in 2013 by Evan You<\/strong>, it has reached 100k stars on GitHub<\/em> and this is an amazing accomplishment for a framework that has not been sponsored, like React or Angular, by one of the modern tech giants.<\/p>\n

We managed to organise a Meetup in only six days (for those who are not familiar with community life, this means finding a location, buffet, speakers, spamming on social media and via mailing list\u2026 and since it\u2019s a free event, hope that people will actually come!) with 40 people attending. For a small city like Salerno this felt as crowded as a Lady Gaga concert.<\/p>\n

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Michele Nasti: A brief history of web frameworks<\/h2>\n

Our night started with a history<\/em> of frontend development. It all started with the browser war in the first years of the web, until JQuery<\/em> came onto the scene. JQuery was the first library to spread at a planetary level and still has a lot of traction: 75% of the top 10k websites are still using JQuery and will probably never ditch it completely.<\/p>\n

However, against the imperative approach<\/em> used by JQuery, Angular1<\/strong> become the first framework to undermine its leadership in the frontend space. The main advantage of Angular1 was the declarative approach<\/em>: instead of explicitly modifying pieces of the DOM on user interactions, we could delegate to the library the DOM manipulation and focus on reasoning about its state.<\/p>\n

The next iteration of frameworks is the one we are currently living in: React<\/a>, Angular2+<\/strong>, and VueJS<\/strong>. React<\/em> was the first to introduce the Virtual DOM concept, a virtual in memory representation of the DOM that was synced with the DOM when it was more convenient. This provided a huge boost in performance. Together with VueJS<\/em> they share a very small API that can be extended to every use case a web developer might need today. There was much more to say but\u2026we are here for VueJS, aren\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

Darek Gusto W\u0119drychowski: The state of VueJS<\/h2>\n

Our second talk was held by Darek, and it was divided in two parts. The first part is on the state of VueJS and its future. Many key points were touched upon:<\/p>\n