VoV 025: Gitlab's journey with Vue with Filipa Lacerda and Jacob Schatz

Panel: Chris FritzJoe EamesDivya Sasidharan Special Guests: Filipa Lacerda, Jacob Schatz, and Phil Hughes In this episode, the Views on Vue panel talks to Filipa Lacerda, Jacob Schatz, and Phil Hughes about GitLab’s journey with Vue. Jacob started as a front-end developer at GitLab and now has joined the data science team as a staff data science engineer. Filipa has been a front-engineer and works with the CIDC and security teams at GitLab. Phil has been at GitLab for 2 ½ years and most recently has been working on the web IDE. They talk about how GitLab decided to adopt Vue, the benefits that Vue brings their company, why they decided to move away from jQuery, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Filipa, Jacob, and Phil introsAll work at GitLabDistributed team at GitLabWork with VueOne team across multiple time zonesHow did GitLab decide to adopt Vue?The benefits of VueCreating a proof of conceptRails previouslyjQueryVue allows them to use much less code and be more organizedVuexUn-opinionated VS highly opinionated frameworksDid you find Vue to be stifling in any way?Could you organize ode the way you wanted to organize it?Vue made their lives easierDidn’t have a style guide or plan in the beginningWhy they moved away from jQueryPerformance issues and the large amount of code with jQueryNode.jsCoffeeScript to JavaScriptAnd much, much more! Links: GitLabVueRailsjQueryVuexNode.jsCoffeeScriptJavaScript@FilipaLacerdaFilipa’s GitHubFilipa’s GitLab@jakecodesJacob’s GitLab@iamphill