Markus Oberlehner

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Vue 3 Composition API: ref() vs. reactive()

One of the first questions that arise when starting with the new Vue Composition API is ref() or reactive()? The initial instinct is to use ref() for primitives (Boolean, String,...) and reactive() for objects. But there is more to it...

Premium Vue and Nuxt Templates for Web Apps and Sites

Suppose you're searching for high-quality Vue.js templates, I recommend you to take a look at the work of Creative Tim. In this article, I'll show you a list of handpicked premium templates to build Web Applications or Websites with Vue.js and Nuxt.js...

Tailwind CSS: The Antifragile CSS Framework

Tailwind CSS is a divisive issue in the web development world: some love it, others love to hate it. This article is about one specific feature of Tailwind CSS: its antifragility...

Your Components Do Too Much

Whenever you feel the need to access global state or globally injected plugin methods or global anything for that matter, often it is a sign that the component you're working on is doing too much...

Events and Callbacks: Parent/Child Component Communication in Vue

Props Down / Events Up is the standard paradigm for communication between parent and child components in Vue.js. React, on the other hand, uses callback functions instead of events. But why is using callbacks considered an anti-pattern in the Vue.js world? And what are the conceptual differences...

What Makes a Senior Developer? It Depends!

The most common answer when you ask a professional about how to solve a specific problem is: it depends. I find myself regularly in this situation when I talk to craftspeople about home renovation projects. I can understand how frustrating this can be...

Building Vue.js Applications Without webpack

In the good old times, creating a JavaScript-enhanced website was straightforward: create a .html file, add a <script> tag, write some JavaScript, and open the file in the browser. Nowadays, building web applications requires complex build toolchains, a node_modules directory with gigabytes of dependencies, and a complicated webpack configuration file...

JavaScript Runtime Bundling Concept

Imagine a world where you don't need to install a single dependency, but you're still able to use all modern JavaScript features. Where you don't need to run a build script every time you change a file. And you can do all of that knowing that your app will be perfectly minified and optimized for old browsers on production...

What Developers Can Learn from Playing Chess and Video Games

I watched some chess recently. Amateurs played against each other, and a grandmaster commented it. It was fascinating to see that the weaker players all made the same mistake: when the opponent attacked one of their figures, they solely focused on this one figure and where they can move it to save it. The more advanced players reacted very differently...