NativeScript-Vue is slowly reaching the 2.0 release and in this article Jen Looper is giving us a sneak peek of the incoming changes. Most important changes: file structure is will be more similar to that of a standard NativeScript. Thanks to this, it will also support NativeScript Sidekick – a companion app that helps you create native apps much faster.

Here’s the transcription from the recent Q&A session about Best Practices in Vue. The questions touched on topics like: when to use Vuex, when to split components, what to avoid when designing components and many others.

In case you missed the previous Q&A with Evan and Guillaume, you can find the online transcription here.

As every year, the State of JavaScript survey returns. Last year Vue.js was voted the most “would like to learn” framework of 2017. I wonder what the 2018 results will bring.

Here’s another cool thing from Sarah Drasner – a directory tree viewer with files from the Vue core library with some additional notes that should help you understand how Vue is constructed. The notes come from a core-team meeting where Evan was introducing team members to the framework internals.

This one reminds me of a workshop Evan You has given last year at VueConf EU. In this brilliant (and funny) article, Adrià Fontcuberta shows how you can build your own version of Vuex. Spoiler Alert To some degree, Vuex is just an additional abstraction layer on top of a Vue instance.

A nice summary of most of the available Vue learning materials out there. If you’re looking for places to learn – this is something for you.

While there are many articles comparing the Vue and React core libraries, this one explores the differences between real-world SPAs to discover which ecosystem of tools provides a better development experience.

In this article, George Hanson will show you how to add TypeScript support when using the new Vue-CLI 3.0. Plot twist — instead of using Vue files, George prefers to write TypeScript and HTML files separately. To be able to connect those two, he has written a simple shim to be able to import HTML files as compiled render functions for his components. Smart move!

You probably heard about GZIP – it’s used widely to compress website assets around the web. However, there are alternatives to GZIP. One of them is called Brotli, created by Google. Here’s an article by Alexander Lichter, who explains how to use it with Nuxt.js thanks to a middleware called ShrinkRay.