GitLab's journey with Vue

from jQuery to GraphQL

Filipa Lacerda

senior frontend engineer @ GitLab

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WHAT IS GITLAB?

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861+ team members

199+ pets

https://about.gitlab.com/team/

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Remote only

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0 offices

58 countries

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open source

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COLLABORATION

RESULTS

EFFICIENCY

ITERATION

TRANSPARENCY

Work asynchronously with fully remote workforce

Track outcomes, not hours

Boring solutions win.

Minimum Viable Change. If it's better than the existing solution, ship it.

Everything at GitLab is public by default

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results

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efficiency

iteration

WHAT ABOUT THE PRODUCT?

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One product that covers the entire software development lifecycle.

DEVELOPMENT

DELIVERY

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1 new release every month

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https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5554

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1 month

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1 month

@iamphill

@dbalexandre

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why Vue?

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🦄     VERSATILE

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🚀     PERFORMANT

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     COMPONENT BASED

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COMPOSING COMPONENTS

Props go down, events go up

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Template system

Conditional rendering

List rendering

Form input bindings

Class and style bindings

Event handling

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but how?

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rewrite all the things?

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results

efficiency

iteration

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what about complex states?

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human readable

maintanable

consistency

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challenges

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over 55 frontend engineers

NONE

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  • One way of writing Vue Apps
  • Architecture
  • Tests
  • Style guide

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/development/fe_guide/vue.html

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/development/fe_guide/vuex.html 

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next steps

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everyone can contribute

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master

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questions?

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THANK YOU!

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GitLab's journey With Vue

By Filipa Lacerda

GitLab's journey With Vue

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