John Farrar talks about “VUE more with less” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.

John is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about VUE more with less.

In his ITB talk, John shares how to learn to move beyond jQuery with super friendly JavaScript with VueJS 2.

Show notes

Here are some of the topics talked about in the episode:

What is VueJS?

A progressive web app (not single page app)

Closer to a desktop app in behavior

How to know when to jump into a new framework

Why he used to avoid JavaScript (and how it advanced ColdFusion)

Why he moved beyond jQuery

What problems do the JS frameworks solve

jQuery - abstracts out the browser JavaScript differences

React - data states in a single page responsive UI using a shadow copy of the DOM

MVVM solution

Angular - solve the same problem as React but is fully object oriented

No version numbers - it is backward compatible and progressive

VueJS - building an interactive site with super friendly code

Great documentation in English on their site even though it was created in China

The most approachable of these JS frameworks

Why he is concerned about mounting technical debt in companies today

Rank your most critical issues and first the most important first

Create automated tests to make sure that past technical debt does not come back

A public company technical debt clock

Check company moral!

How to pick a framework (hint - it is not just popularity contest)

Solves the problem you have

Why do I really want to use a JavaScript library

It is fun

The same to Googlebot with or without the framework

A growing and thriving community and docs, training courses - to get answers to questions

The community has viable funding

Is it validated in real-world solutions

The challenges being in the framework Olympic circle

Vue, Angular and React

None are the cult solution

How VueJS make JavaScript super friendly

VueX and how to stick your data in name spaces

The interesting story of how JavaScript has evolved over the years

Pre-rendering on a Node.JS server

Webkit JS clean up compile step

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

CF is thriving in the intranets

Super B2B tool

CommandBox

What is CF’s market? + Lucee hits new markets

Teach CFers how to build better community

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?

Mentioned in this episode

ASC orientated - Approachable Sustainable Collaborative

The Open Learning Server

Tincan -  The Tin Can API (sometimes known as the Experience API or xAPI) is a brand new specification for learning technology that makes it possible to collect data about the wide range of experiences a person has (online and offline). This API captures data in a consistent format about a person or group’s activities from many technologies.

Rick Mason Lansing ColdFusion User Group 

“Never first, never last” - Microsoft motto

“Great programmers plan the best path through the woods… BUT they don’t resist the multiple daily unexpected rock climbs.” - John Farrar

MVP goals for projects

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank 

There are no facts inside the building - it is a guess - we don’t know until we test - so get outside

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries 

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek 

Leaders eat last

jQuery

React

Angular

VueJS

Created by Evan Yu

DOM (Data Object Model)

Bootstrap

Handlebars

Technical debt

The way your code works is the interface with your...