Learn how to use GraphQL with Apollo in a Vue.js app.

Have you know about the performance mode inside Vue? It activates the User Timing API and makes it possible to easily measure your app runtime performance using the performance tab of your browser dev tools.

Last week we shared with you some tips for those that are just starting with Vue. Today we got you another series of tips, this time directed to more advanced users. Check them out!

Here’s a great trick that allows you to treat window related properties – like the current scroll value – as if those were reactive. The trick is to create a new instance of Vue (similar to how you can create event buses) that registers the required listeners on the window object and assigns them to a local state. Then you can use that state in your other components. Neat!

Natalia continues a series of article focused on building desktop applications with Vue.js. This time using NW.js (previously known as node-webkit), which is a pretty similar solution to Electron. If you want to learn how to get started with the tool, check out the article.

A cool article on how to use the Vue-Multiselect library combined with Laravel Tags, to implement a tagging system for a HR-related application.

An interesting article on how to build a powerful search view with Vue.js and ElasticSearch, by using a component library called ReactiveSearch.

Have you heard about TensorFlow? Are you into AI? Read this cool article on how to use face recognition to build an app that will recognise the people on the pictures it receives in real-time.

Another great article to get your started with NativeScript-Vue as well as walks you through the development of GitNews – a hybrid mobile app that shows trending repositories from GitHub, HackerNews and Reddit!

It’s hard to provide good UX when an iframe fails to load, as iframes don’t provide an error event. Here’s a rough way of detecting a failed iframe and providing a fallback using Vue.js.