1. Article

    Upgrading Nuxt v3 to v4 under 30 minutes

    Reading time: 6 minutes • Posted 6 months ago
    Astronauts

    TL;DR: I upgraded a 32k LOC Nuxt app from v3 to v4 in 29 minutes of actual work. Here's how it went and what I learned.

    I'm maintaining a reasonably sized Nuxt application - not massive, but substantial enough to make upgrade decisions matter. We're talking about a project (excluded tests here) with 32k lines of code spread across 173 files, with a healthy mix of 72 Vue components and 44 TypeScript files. The dependency footprint includes 34 production dependencies plus 7 development ones. So, not that big, which makes it a perfect candidate for an upgrade scenario!

  2. Tutorial

    Netlify Forms 💚 Nuxt Static Sites

    Posted 7 months ago

    If you're (like me) liking the ease of hosting with Netlify and are using Nuxt to power a static site, there is probably a rule of thumb which predicts when you'll need a form on your site. Luckily, Netlify has support built in, but you need to set up your configuration correctly for it to work.

    Let's see what we need to do in order to add a concise form (you'll know how to take it from there, I'm sure) and get submissions in your Netlify dashboard.

  3. Article

    From Vue to Google Play Store – Building & Publishing a Native Android App with Quasar

    Reading time: 11 minutes • Posted 9 months ago
    Different screens of the Doorrekenen app

    Why I Built a Multiplication App with Vue & Quasar

    I recently completed a rite of passage: I've published my first app in the Google Play app store. The reason for going through this was two fold: I was aware of the capacities of multiplatform builds using my favorite framework of choice and wanted to explore how this would pan out in practice. At the same time, the perfect opportunity presented itself: my kids were practicing tables of multiplication and to me, that seemed a perfect challenge to build an app for!