Vue 3 has been out for almost 8 months now. Adoption is slow. This is feeling a little like another major version bump I’ve lived through. Is Vue the new Python? When I started developing this go around, I was getting into Python and I was confused about Python 2 vs Python 3 and what I should be using. This was back...

Every once in a while, you find a feature of JavaScript you never knew about that has always been there. Labels are one of those odd vestigial bits of the language that make you go “But why?” I have previously read about and experimented with labels on for loops in JavaScript and after seeing Brendan Eich tweet...

I upgraded an app to Vue 3 and I learned some things about it. I’ve just finished upgrading vue-solitaire to use Vue 3. There are 3 main things I learned in this process that I wanted to let you (dear reader) know about. First, the way you add global components has changed a little. Next, the way apps mount has both...

I’m diving into react, coming from vue, and I have some thoughts. I started Kent C. Dodd’s Epic React course, and first off, i’ve barely scratched the surface. This course is excellent, and will likely be my go to recommendation if someone wants to learn react. While the course is fantastic, I find React… awkward....

I have now added comments to my site. I am trying out using utteranc.es as my commenting system. This integrates with the github issues for my blog’s repo and so we will see how well this works. I fully expect no one to comment. But if you do: Hey, you’re awesome.

ES6 classes have been around for a little while now, so let’s talk about a key difference between using them and using a more traditional object prototype extending method of creating JavaScript classes. At work the other day I ran into a bit of code I was trying to test that relied on @google/markerclustererplus...

I had the pleasure of giving my talk “Dependency Injection in Vue.js” at Connect.Tech 2019. Here’s where you can see more about it. Video: ConnectTech2019 - Dependency Injection in Vue - Alex Riviere Slides: https://slides.com/fimion/connect-tech-2019#/ Codepen Examples: https://codepen.io/collection/AaLZBm

I recently have updated the styling of my site to have a bit more… character? The other day someone linked me to dory-funk.com and I was immediately mesmerized by the background. It reminded me of my early days of the internet and messing around with HTML at that time. I opened up the background in a separate tab...

My first pass at a talk that is an intro to Vue.js and how you can use it without a build step. Watch Highlight: Why Vue.js? - A First Pass from Fimion on www.twitch.tv

Huzzah for feed readers! I’ve added an rss feed to the blog, so in theory, you can now subscribe in your favorite feed reader. At the moment, it only has the excerpt, and not the content. If there is interest in the content being in there, I will look into that. You should leave a comment… ohhhh… hmmm… Next on my...

Thoughts on moving to a new system. I am currently moving alex.party over to the netlify name servers. Soon this will be the new home of my blog! Maybe I can also get some of my other old domains pointing here too. Anyway, I wanted to make a system that was more maintainable than the old system. The old system was...

Hello world! I’m rebooting my blog as a gridsome site. because it’s like gatsby but for vue… or at least that is my understanding. Let’s see how this goes…