Building Advanced Vue.js Applications

Recently I've seen a great talk by Jacob Schatz about Phenomenal Design Patterns in Vue. One of the patterns he mentioned in his talk was the Builder Pattern. I found his example very interesting, so it was clear to me that I had to experiment with this pattern myself...

In this article we will experiment with implementing the IoC container pattern in Vue.js. The IoC container pattern is very popular in other languages and frameworks, but not so much in the JavaScript world – we'll also take a look at why that might be so...

I often wonder how to best decouple certain parts of an application. At first this seems pretty straightforward in the context of Vue.js applications. You have components and components pass down properties and emit events, that's it. Right? Yeah, kinda. But also kinda not...

In this article, we will explore how we can leverage the power of WebSockets to push content and even component updates to simple Vue.js client applications...

Imagine the following scenario: We have a central content distribution server responsible for pushing new content (think of news articles for example) to a variety of Vue.js-based client applications. But we not only want to push new content but also describe the shape of the content via Vue.js components...

Solid error handling is one those things which can make the difference between a good application and a great application. In todays article we'll take a look at how we can build renderless components to help us capture errors in our Vue.js applications...

Assuming that we already have integration tests and unit tests in place, it’s time to take a look at how we can build our next line of defense against unwanted regressions in our app. In this article we'll use Jest and Puppeteer to set up Visual Regression Tests...

Reusing logic and keeping your codebase DRY should be one of your top priorities. In a Vue.js application components are the most important means of code reuse. But usually we think of components as a combination of markup, logic and CSS. At first, it might not be very intuitive to use components to provide only logic and not render anything at all...

This is a followup article of my previous article about Integration Testing Vue.js applications with Cypress. In this article we are testing the same application but instead of using Cypress we want to use the combined forces of Jest and Puppeteer...

In my previous article about Advanced Component Composition, we wrote Unit Tests for all of our Vue.js components except the Container Components. Writing Unit Tests for components with a lot of external dependencies (e.g. making API calls or accessing the $route object) is usually very hard to do because most of the time you have to mock a lot of their dependencies...