What are the Advantages of Vue js Framework in Web Development?
The web development field is undergoing a massive change in the last few years. New technologies and tools are being released every month to ease the web app development process. One such new framework is Vue js. Although it was released
in recent years, it has quickly become one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks for frontend developers.
In this blog, we will be looking at all the advantages of Vue js framework. Along with this we also discuss why Vue js has gained so much popularity in such a short time. But first, let’s have a brief overview of the framework.
Overview About Vuejs Framework
Vue js is a progressive framework designed for the frontend development of web applications and websites. It follows the Model–View–View-Model (MVVM) architecture and is mainly used for building user interfaces and single-page applications.
Advantages of Vue js in Web App Development
Vue is widely popular and gaining a lot of attraction in the field of front-end development. But choosing a technology just because it is trending is not enough.
- 1. SmallThe success of JavaScript framework depends on its size. The smaller the size is, the more it will be used. One of the greatest advantages of Vue.js is its small size.
The size of this framework is 18–21KB and it takes no time for the user to download and use
- 2. Easy to UnderstandOne of the reasons for the popularity of this framework is that it is quite easy to understand. The user can easily add Vue.js to his web project because
of its simple structure. It has well defined architecture for keeping your data, life-cycle methods and custom methods separate. It also has some great features like watchers, computed properties and directives which make process
of building a modern web application a breeze. Both the small as well as large scale web applications can be developed through this framework which saves a lot of time.
- 3. Simple IntegrationVue.js is also popular among the web developers because it facilitates them to integrate with the existing applications. This is because it is based on
JavaScript framework and can be integrated into other applications built on JavaScript. You can go ahead and add Vue.js CDN and start using it. Most of the third party vue components and libraries are also available and supported
with Vue.js CDN. You don't necessarily need to setup node and npm to start using Vue.js. This means that it is useful for developing new web applications as well as altering the pre-existing applications. You can also use it
as a great jQuery Replacement.
- 4. FlexibilityA great deal of flexibility is another advantage of Vue.js. It allows the user to write his template in HTML file, JavaScript file, and pure JavaScript file using
virtual nodes. This flexibility also makes it easy to understand for the developers of React.js, Angular.js, and any other new JavaScript framework. When it comes to using the Vue.js. It's also very easy to add and work with
tools like Templating Engines(e.g. pug), CSS Pre-processors(e.g. sass, less, stylus etc.) and Type checking tools like Typescript.
- 5. Two-Way CommunicationVue.js facilitates two way communications because of its MVVM architecture which makes it quite easy to handle HTML blocks. It seems very close to Angular.js
which also speeds up HTML blocks. This feature is also termed as 2-Way Data Binding, what that means is whatever changes you make in your UI is passed to your data and changes done in your data is reflected in your UI. Vue.js
is also called Reactive because it reacts to whenever your data in changed. This is very different when compared to Libraries like React.js which only supports one way communication.
- 6. Great ToolingVue.js has great tooling.The new Vue CLI i.e. 3.x is arguably one of the best tool for a Javascript Framework. It allows you to kickstart new Project with things
like Routing, State Store, Linting, Unit Testing, CSS Pre-processors, Typescript, PWA etc built in. You can also save your presents to use in other projects in the future. It also allows you to add features down the road. Vue
CLI also provides a UI for managing your projects.
- 7. Best of both worldsAs you may have heard, Vue.js is inspired by Two already great web frameworks i.e. React and Angular. It takes best parts of both the frameworks. For
example, just like React it is component based and uses Virtual DOM which makes it incredibly fast. And like Angular it has Directives and 2-Way Data Binding. It's not a library(unlike React.js) and not a full fledge framework(unlike
Angular). It has really great balance of features that come out of the box and It's incredibly easy to add more along the way like Routing and State Management.
