Vue.js Developers Issue #34 - Build A Real-Time Chat App With Vuex & Cloud Firestore, Vue.js 2.5 Released and more

By Anthony Gore • Issue #34 • View online

Vue.js 2.5 has been released this week! It includes better Typescript integration, error handling, support for functional components in SFCs and more. Evan You has done a comprehensive write-up of the new features, as well as a roadmap for future releases.

In other news, Google’s Firebase platform released a new product last week, Cloud Firestore. Much like Firebase, it is a NoSQL-based cloud database that can be used to build real-time applications.

Lachlan Miller has written a guest post for us this week where he shows how to build a real-time chat application which uses Vue, Vuex and the new Cloud Firestore.

See this and more, below.

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Build A Real-Time Chat App With VueJS, Vuex & Cloud Firestore

Firestore is Google’s latest real-time cloud database. In this tutorial by Lachlan Miller, you will learn how to build a chat app with Vue.js, Vuex and Cloud Firestore.

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6 Essential Vue.js Links From This Week

Vue 2.5 released – The Vue Point

Vue 2.5 “Level E” has been released. This release includes better Typescript integration, error handling, support for functional components in SFCs and more.

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Roadmap for the Vue.js project

Evan You has published a roadmap for the Vue.js project. It includes plans for the core library, projects in the Vue ecosystem as well as upcoming Vue.js events.

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Testing Vue.js components with Jest

Alex Jover Morales has released a fantastic ebook on testing Vue.js components using Jest and the official vue-test-utils framework.

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Exploring Data with Serverless and Vue

Sarah Drasner has made a cool web app that shows where she and her colleagues are speaking at events around the world. In this article, she explains how she built the app using Vue, Vuex and an Azure serverless function.

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Overlay Glasses/Masks on Avatars with Vue.js and Cloudinary

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Vue.js and Cloudinary to build a web app in which users can test different glasses and masks to see what looks good on them!

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Django + Webpack + Vue.js: Setting Up a New Project That’s Easy to Develop and Deploy

Alejandro Riera explains the key points for setting up a Webpack development environment for Django and Vue.js that is easy work with and to deploy.

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