If you enjoy our podcast you might also be interested in "Views on Vue". The latest episode treats about contributing to open source. Guests include: Charles Max Wood, Chris Fritz, Erik Hanchett and Divya Sasidharan.

If you are interested in best practices regarding component design I will be sharing my experience during a full-day workshop on December 3rd, in Warsaw, Poland during Frontend-con.io.

Have you thought about creating your own Vue CLI plugin for you library? Natalia Tepluhina wrote a detailed article on how to do just that, building an Rx.js plugin. It covers all the steps you will have to go through: from using the file generator, creating a command line prompt and publishing the plugin.

Alexander Lichter wrote a guide on how to to make sure your components won’t cause any issues when used during server-side rendering. The guide includes tips on how to avoid memory-leaks, manage the usage of platform-specific APIs and how to work with directives.

Speaking of server-side rendered applications – Vue Mastery has released a free Nuxt.js Essentials Cheat Sheet (in the same style as the Vue.js Essentials Cheat Sheet). If you end up going back to docs to look up the syntax – this is something for you.

Continuing where he left last week, Daniel Kuroski is back with the 2nd part of his TDD guide for Vue.js applications. This week you will read more about how to write tests and how to write useful helper methods that can speed up your testing experience.

When debugging many Vue developers rely on the easiest debugging methods: Vue.js Devtools and simple console logs. In this article Kevin Ball shows how to improve your debugging skills by explaining how to locate malfunctioning code and debug it with breakpoints.

Here’s a little hack showing how to simulate mounted and beforeDestroy hooks in Vue.js functional components through the usage of component.