In DejaVue episode number nine, Tim Benniks joins Alex discussing how he used Vue in huge applications and how Tim and his team built 3000 websites for a single brand that most of you know - Louis Vuitton.

In addition, Tim shares his journey from becoming a nurse to eventually learn web development. Learn which benefits Vue brought compared to the old jQuery application, how Tim and his team migrated a huge system step by step and more!

Enjoy the episode!

Chapters

• (00:00) - Start and Guest Introduction
• (01:34) - From becoming a Nurse to becoming a Developer
• (06:49) - Building Social Network before Facebook
• (10:33) - Getting into Vue.js and Abandoning jQuery
• (16:01) - Reducing Bugs with Vue.js
• (19:33) - Accessibility - Reaching AA or AAA
• (26:16) - Balancing the Stakeholder Needs
• (30:39) - 3000 Websites with Vue.js for one Company
• (32:49) - Building your own Component Library?
• (35:40) - Cleaning up Technical Debt at Louis Vuitton
• (38:23) - Gradually upgrading legacy LV software
• (43:43) - Why not React or Angular?
• (52:40) - Mitosis
• (55:13) - Outro

Links and Resources

• Tim's episode on the "We Belong Here" podcast
• Episode #E001 The Need for SSR
• Grunt
• Gulp
• WCAG for Accessibility
• Vue Route Announcer
• Route Announcer in Nuxt
• Knockout.js
• Accessibility Needs Overview
• Partytown
• CloudFlare Zaraz
• Episode #E007 From Code to DevRel and Leadership
• Tim's "Team First" Talk
• Storybook
• Migrating to Nuxt 4 Now?!
• Tim's "A Vue into Rock & Roll Part 2" talk
• Mitosis