Our Vue.js/Nuxt.js articles

As developers at Theodo, we are always looking for efficient ways to reuse our code without repeating ourselves (DRY principle). In the context of an e-commerce project using the Vue Storefront framework and Vue 2, we had the opportunity to study the best ways to reuse functional behaviors in Vue…

For a long time people (including myself) have used the same skin care routine everyday. Only occasionally do we switch up our products for a different brand. The creams are opened and resealed multiple times a week, resulting in the products containing preservatives and other unnatural ingredients…

Why build a CMS driven showcase website? Here you are, you just started a project to build the latest shiny showcase website for your client. Now comes the difficult part: you want to offer your client the best bang for his bucks, not wanting to redo part of the website each time the content changes…

Why build a CMS driven showcase website? Here you are, you just started a project to build the latest shiny showcase website for your client. Now comes the difficult part: you want to offer your client the best bang for his bucks, not wanting to redo part of the website each time the content changes…

A few weeks ago I started a new Vue project. One of my co-dev recommended using TypeScript on our project: "It will help us spot bugs and mistakes, and the sooner we add it, the easier it will be". It was my first time developing on TypeScript. Why TypeScript ? TypeScript homepage First of all, you…

If you did not read the first part yet, please have a look here before going further. Introduction In our last post, we explained: why our Twig / Vue mix was bad, in terms of development experience, maintainability and performance why we decided to migrate to a full Nuxt.js application. In this…

If you did not read the first part yet, please have a look here before going further. Introduction In our last post, we explained: why our Twig / Vue mix was bad, in terms of development experience, maintainability and performance why we decided to migrate to a full Nuxt.js application. In this…

A year ago I was a young developer starting his journey on React. My client came to see my team and told us: “We need to make reusable components”, I asked him: “What is a reusable component?” and the answer was “This project is a pilot on the subject”. 2 months later another developer tried to use…

Usually, we are completely running React.js on client-side: Javascript is interpreted by your browser. The initial html returned by the server contains a placeholder, e.g. <div id="root"></div>, and then, once all your scripts are loaded, the entire UI is rendered in the browser. We call it client…

Quick summary of part 1 I’m quite fond of the way Medium displays its images while they’re loading. At first they display a grey placeholder, then displays a small version of the image - something like 27x17 pixels. The trick is that most browsers will blur a small image if it is streched out…

When I’m stuck on a train or queuing at the supermarket I usually read one or two articles on Medium. There’s plenty of stuff that I really love about Medium. Like the email they send me every morning. Or the personal recommendations on their main page. And the blurry image loading. I mean…