Ajdin Imsirovic - Vue.js Quick Start Guide: Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily using Vue.js

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Ajdin Imsirovic has been working with frontend technologies, as well as web and print design, for almost two decades. He is an accomplished video course creator and the author of Bootstrap 4 Cookbook and Elm Web Development, both by Packt Publishing. In his third book, Vue.js Quick Start Guide, he eases in the newcomers to the Vue ecosystem in a clear and concise manner.

Sufyan bin Uzayr is a writer, teacher, and developer with more than 10 years' experience in the industry. He is an open source enthusiast and specializes in a wide variety of technologies. He holds four masters' degrees and has authored multiple books.

Sufyan is an avid writer. He regularly writes about topics related to coding, tech, politics, and sports. He is a regular columnist for various publications and magazines.

Sufyan is the CEO of Parakozm, a software development company catering to a global clientele. He is also the CTO at Samurai Servers, a web server management company focusing mainly on enterprise-scale audiences.

In his spare time, Sufyan teaches coding and English to young students.

Andrea Koutifaris has a passion for programming which he likes to say is in his DNA. At the age of thirteen, he began using his fathers laptop to write his own programs. After graduating high school he enrolled, without a second thought, at the University of Florence, Faculty of Computer Engineering. After being a Java developer for some years, Andrea gradually moved to front-end development which is his passion till date. Having spent too much time fixing problems in messed up code, he is obsessed with good programming and test-driven development which, in his opinion, is the only way to write production quality code. Andrea has authored the book, Vuex Quick Start Guide, published recently by Packt.

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Up until a few years ago, direct DOM manipulation was the standard in frontend development, with jQuery leading the way. All that started changing with the popularization of modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks, mainly Angular and React. And then, in February of 2014, Vue came out with its initial release.

With large IT companies backing both Angular and React, it was not clear how Vue would carve out its position. Initially developed by a single developer, Evan You, in four short yearsand without corporate backingVue went from being the fun little project of a single developer to an unlikely rival to the big boys, with over 300 contributors. It's not a one-man show anymore.

Today, Vue is used by NASA, GitLab, Alibaba, Grammarly, WizzAir, EuroNews, Xiaomi, Adobe, Behance, Nintendo, Chess.com, and many others.

Conclusion? Vue is here to stay. And while there might be an on-going discussion about whether it's better to learn Elm, or React, or Angular, or Ember, or something entirely different, this discussion is largely irrelevant. Each library and framework has something to offer, and in the end, it's simply a matter of trying it out and seeing whether it works for you.