Vue 2.6 released Yesterday we just celebrated the 5th Vueniversary — today we are excited to announce the release of Vue 2.6 “Macross”! In the past year, we spent a lot of time working on the new CLI and prototyping for 3.0. As a result, Vue core 2.x hasn’t received major updates in quite a while. It’s about time! This release combines a number of substantial improvements, internal changes and new features which are highlighted in this post. For full details, make sure to also check out the full release note on GitHub. Slots: New Syntax, Performance Improvements & Alignment with ..read more

Last week at Vue.js London I gave a brief sneak peek of what’s coming in the next major version of Vue. This post provides an in-depth overview of the plan. Why a new major version? Vue 2.0 was released exactly two years ago (how time flies!). During this period, the core has remained backwards compatible with five minor releases. We’ve accumulated a number of ideas that would bring improvements, but they were held off because they would result in breaking changes. At the same time, the JavaScript ecosystem and the language itself has been evolving rapidly. There are greatly improved ..read more

The First Vue.js Sprint — Summary Vue.js Sprint is a new initiative that aims to physically bring together members of the Vue team to work on core projects for at least several days.  — @DamianDulisz Quick facts: Location: Wrocław, Poland 8 core team members (Alex Kyriakidis, Chris Fritz, Denis Karabaza, Guillaume CHAU, Michał Sajnóg, Nick Messing, Rahul Kadyan and me, Damian Dulisz) 6 working days 8–10 work hours per day ~432 total work hours For the first sprint, organised by Guillaume and me, we ended up picking Wrocław for the location. It’s a pretty speci ..read more

Over the past few months, we’ve been working really hard on the next generation of Vue CLI, the standard build toolchain for Vue applications. Today we are thrilled to announce the release of Vue CLI 3.0 and all the exciting features that come with it. Rich Built-in Features Vue CLI 3 is a completely different beast from its previous version. The goal of the rewrite is two-fold: Reduce configuration fatigue of modern frontend tooling, especially when mixing multiple tools together; Incorporate best practices in the toolchain as much as possible so it becomes the default for any Vue ..read more

Some of you might have already found out, but today it’s official — we are excited to announce the Vue.js News platform. With such a rapidly growing ecosystem around Vue it is becoming more challenging to stay up to date with all that’s happening. That’s why we aim to provide a reliable way to all the important news for Vue.js developers like you. Right from the source. The news platform consists of: Weekly Newsletter (previously known as Vue.js Newsletter) News Podcast covering the highlights from the newsletter A webpage where you can read and listen to all of the above How ..read more

A big update was released to the Vue devtools just a few days ago. Let’s dive into the new features and improvements! ? Editable component data You can now modify the data of your component directly in the Component inspector pane. Select a component Under the data section in the inspector, mouse over a field Click on the pencil icon Submit your changes by clicking on the done icon or by hitting Enter. You can hit Escape to cancel the edition https://medium.com/media/f7c56357d7d8b9c1bf19a99a25d23e4f/href The content of the field is the serialized JSON value. For example, if yo ..read more

We are excited to announce the release of Vue 2.5 Level E! This release includes improvements of various features and we recommend checking out the release note for full details. In this post we are going to highlight some of the more prominent changes: better TypeScript integration, better error handling, better support for functional components in single-file components, and environment-agnostic server-side rendering. Better TypeScript Integration With the help from the TypeScript team, 2.5 offers greatly improved type declarations that works with Vue’s out-of-the-box API without the need f ..read more

Typing Improvements We have been receiving requests for better TypeScript integration ever since the release of Vue 2.0. Since the release, we have included official TypeScript type declarations for most of the core libraries (vue, vue-router, vuex). However, the current integration is somewhat lacking when using the out-of-the-box Vue API. For example, TypeScript cannot easily infer the type of this inside the default object-based API that Vue uses. To make our Vue code play nicely with TypeScript, we have to use thevue-class-component decorator, which allows us to author Vue components using ..read more

Today we are happy to announce that we have started to accept financial contributions to the Vue project via OpenCollective. Why OpenCollective? The question many will probably ask is “why OpenCollective when you already have a successful Patreon campaign?” — there are a few reasons: When I started the Patreon campaign, the primary goal was providing myself with enough income so that I can work on Vue full-time. Today, as the Vue community grows, there are more and more contributions from the community, and OpenCollective’s transparent expense model could help us scale the financial cont ..read more

…and we thought 2015 was an explosive year! It’s already end of 2016! During the past 12 months, Vue’s growth has been consistently exceeding my expectations — the project has grown from a relatively niche framework to one that is now often compared to the biggest players in the field. Let’s take a look at what happened! 2016 Stats Overview NPM downloads: 1,943,567 total, 1,531,217 YTD (up from 382,184 in 2015, +300%) Core repo GitHub stars: 37,664 total, ~26,000 YTD (up from ~7,600 in 2015, +240%) Core repo Pull Requests merged: 350 total, 258 YTD (up from 70 in 2015, +26 ..read more