In DejaVue episode number nine, Tim Benniks joins Alex discussing how he used Vue in huge applications and how Tim and his team built 3000 websites for a single brand that most of you know - Louis Vuitton.
In addition, Tim shares his journey from becoming a nurse to eventually learn web development. Learn which benefits Vue brought compared to the old jQuery application, how Tim and his team migrated a huge system step by step and more!
Enjoy the episode!
Chapters
- (00:00) - Start and Guest Introduction
- (01:34) - From becoming a Nurse to becoming a Developer
- (06:49) - Building Social Network before Facebook
- (10:33) - Getting into Vue.js and Abandoning jQuery
- (16:01) - Reducing Bugs with Vue.js
- (19:33) - Accessibility - Reaching AA or AAA
- (26:16) - Balancing the Stakeholder Needs
- (30:39) - 3000 Websites with Vue.js for one Company
- (32:49) - Building your own Component Library?
- (35:40) - Cleaning up Technical Debt at Louis Vuitton
- (38:23) - Gradually upgrading legacy LV software
- (43:43) - Why not React or Angular?
- (52:40) - Mitosis
- (55:13) - Outro
Links and Resources
- Tim's episode on the "We Belong Here" podcast
- Episode #E001 The Need for SSR
- Grunt
- Gulp
- WCAG for Accessibility
- Vue Route Announcer
- Route Announcer in Nuxt
- Knockout.js
- Accessibility Needs Overview
- Partytown
- CloudFlare Zaraz
- Episode #E007 From Code to DevRel and Leadership
- Tim's "Team First" Talk
- Storybook
- Migrating to Nuxt 4 Now?!
- Tim's "A Vue into Rock & Roll Part 2" talk
- Mitosis
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