Vue.js history

Vue.js is an easy-to-use web app framework that we can use to develop interactive front-end apps.

VueJS was created by Evan You. He worked at Google on AngularJS projects. He extracts the parts that we really liked in AngularJS and builds something really lightweight. The first source code was released in July 2013, and VueJs was released in February 2014.

When Evan You was working at Google Creative Labs on one of the projects, they needed to quickly prototype a rather large UI interface. Writing a lot of repeated HTML was clearly time- and resource-consuming, and that’s why Evan started looking for some already existing tools for this purpose. To his surprise, he discovered that there was no tool, library, or framework that could fit exactly into the purpose of rapid prototyping! At that time, Angular was widely used, React.js was just starting, and frameworks such as Backbone.js were used for large-scale applications with MVC architecture. For the kind of project that needed something really flexible and lightweight just for quick UI prototyping, neither of these complex frameworks was adequate.

Vue.js was born as a tool for rapid prototyping. Now it can be used to build complex scalable reactive web applications.

The core library comes with tools and libraries both developed by the core team and contributors.

Official tooling

• Devtools: Browser dev tools extension for debugging Vue.js applications
• Vue CLI: Standard Tooling for rapid Vue.js development
• Vue Loader is a webpack loader that allows the writing of Vue components in a format called Single-File Components (SFCs)

Official libraries

• Vue Router: The official router for Vue.js
• Vuex: Flux-inspired Centralized State Management for Vue.js
• Vue Server Renderer: Server-Side Rendering for Vue.js

Contributors

That was what Evan did. That is how he came to the idea of creating a library that would help in rapid prototyping by offering an easy and flexible way of reactive data binding and reusable components.

Like every good library, Vue.js has been growing and evolving, thus providing more features than it was promising from the beginning. Currently, it provides an easy way of attaching and creating plugins, writing and using mixins, and overall adding custom behavior. Vue can be used in such a flexible way and is so nonopinionated of the application structuring that it definitely can be considered as a framework capable of supporting the end-to-end building of complex web applications.