87: Chris Fritz - Vue.js Anti-Patterns (and How to Avoid Them)
In this episode, Adam talks to Chris Fritz about common mistakes people make when designing Vue.js applications, and better ways to solve the same problems.
Topics include:
- Why global state is better than an event bus
- Why and how to avoid using this.$parent
- Custom events vs. callback props
- When to use watchers and when you don't need to
- Why you should prefer computed properties over methods
- Inline templates vs. scoped slots
- Using components to share code instead of mixins or directives
- Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
- Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
- Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
- Chris on GitHub
- Chris on Patreon
- "7 Secret Patterns Vue Consultants Don't Want You To Know", Chris' recent presentation
- "Methods, Computed, and Watchers in Vue.js" by Sarah Drasner
- PortalVue, library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
- vue-enterprise-boilerplate