What Does Vue 3.0 Mean for Web Development?

Last November, Vue creator, Evan You, showcased the key updates on Vue 3.0 — the latest iteration of the rising Javascript framework. These optimizations make Vue more efficient, modular, and easy to use. I will discuss these changes and the impact I believe they’ll have following Vue 3.0’s release.

What is Vue Right Now?

In their own words, Vue is a “progressive framework for building user applications”. It’s designed to be super flexible with the ability to either incorporate individual Vue libraries into other projects or powering complex projects entirely with Vue.

Vue is often seen as one of the more approachable and easy-to-implement frameworks. Allowing support for pure HTML templates whereas tools like React define DOM elements using Javascript.

As of early 2019, we are still in Vue 2.0. While still holding a tiny share of the market in comparison to React and Angular, Vue has been continuously rising in popularity. In my opinion, the release of Vue 3.0 will boost its usage and make it even more of a legitimate alternative to the other major frameworks.

Below is a graph showing the number of job availabilities for each framework. As you can see, VueJS still as a ways to go before coming close to the current industry standards.