The most important news is that Vue CLI is now using webpack 4. 🎉 However, this also means breaking changes. Plugins that do not yet support webpack 4 won’t be working with Vue CLI. If you work on such a plugin or maybe you’re already using Vue CLI v3 in your app – keep that in mind when updating.

If you’re interested in contributing to the Vue ecosystem you might be interested in signing in for the Vue Contributor Day organised by This Dot Media. During the stream the core team members as well as authors of popular libraries will share updates related to Vue as well as answer some of the questions from other attendees.

Vue.js core team members Sarah Drasner and Chris Fritz will be giving a 2-days workshop in San Francisco, California next month. If you’re new to Vue or just want to refine your skills –this is your chance to learn from the very best. The regular price is $849 however, if you hurry up you can grab an early-bird ticket for just $649!

vue-meteor-tracker is the popular bridge between Vue and Meteor. Akryum just released a new beta version of it with several improvements and breaking changes.

There was a total of 17 Lightning Talks at VueConf US and here you can watch them all. Each talk is around 5-6 minutes.

Derick Sozo from VueMastery has picked his top 5 favourite lightning talks from VueConf US. You don’t want to miss those!

Provide/Inject is a relatively new addition to the Vue API (v2.2.0+, similar to React’s context API) and in most cases it is recommended to avoid using it when building applications. However, there might be use cases where using it is justified. And when you do, those tips by Alex Riviere might come in handy.

Here’s a really nice article on how to create realtime charts using Vue.js, Pusher and Chart.js.

Snackbars are a popular way to show notifications to the users. Here’s a great article that will show you how to connect the Vuetify snackbar component with Vuex, thus creating a global notification system.

Usually when working with Vue, your components are required to have just 1 root element in the template. However, not many people know that functional components don’t have that limitation.

Handling API calls is a common problem for everyone who is just starting on web development. This article shows how to properly encapsulate the asynchronous code and use them within Vuex actions.