A Vue Into the Frontend

or: A Backend Developer's Adventures With Frontend Coding with Vue.js and Laravel

Rebecca Martin

@laches1sm

BelfastJS

Introductions and what this talk is about

• Developer at Flexera
• Mainly use Python, Golang 
• Also do a bit of Rust and PHP
• What do these have in common?

This is usually what my websites look like...

Introductions and what this talk is about

• Will mostly concern my experience learning Vue.js in conjunction with Laravel
• Also will have a brief look at CSS (ugh)
• Also parrots

So why did you learn Vue?

• Was sick of having all my web demos look like a time warp to 1998
• It was bundled with Laravel anyway
• Seemed easy enough to learn

What is Vue.js, anyway?

• I still don't honestly know
• Javascript framework
• Open-source (yay!)
• Mainly used for building UI
• Designed to be a lot more approachable than other frameworks

So why use it then?

• Easy to pick up compared to other frameworks
• Bundled with several web frameworks - most notably Laravel (PHP)
• Can be easily embedded into pages
• Very reactive

How to use it with Laravel

• Bundled with Laravel as default
• Can use other JS frameworks as well 
• Usually modify the app.js file and include it in the Blade template 
• Live coding? Demo??

Questions?