JSFoo: round the year submissions

Rendering Vue sfc’s inside Backbone apps

There are a lot of articles to get started with Vue, but there are a lot of people who still use some older framework and want to shift on to something new. There are not much tutorials or articles on how one could do so. I will talk about my experience and challenges I faced while integrating Vue inside existing large Backbone app.

Outline #

Backbone’s codebase gets hard to maintain when it gets too large and it does not provide the features which today’s modern frameworks provide. If you have a small team it is impossible to shift the codebase to something like VUE, so why not just build the new stuff in Vue.
This talk will be focused on:

• Why should you should choose Vue
• Vue’s loosely coupled behaviour made it possible to integrate it inside backbone
• How beautifully Vue docks and takes control of the region it is docked upon.
• Integrating Vue store for communication
• Other challenges that I faced and how I solved for them.

Speaker bio #

I am Rohan, currently working with the Frontend team at Socialcops.
I have been working on frontend for several years, have worked on Angularjs for 2 years, and have been working on Backbone and Vue at Socialcops maintaining a large and complex code base.
This is not a mere experiment, this was actually implemented in a product which is pushed to people using it in 20+ countries. This is a battle tested approach.

Links #

• I spoke about some ES6 features in a meetup. Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r9nU0l35V6mFBVSA_a6An6_ZwKh8qUXhxtTMGoEM-P8/edit?usp=sharing.
• Github: https://github.com/goelrohan6