To be honest, the title is slightly deceitful. I’ve been working on this project for several weeks, but I am going to start sharing my experiences with the project to you all on Steemit. I am a Web Developer by trade, and been getting into the Hybrid Mobile development with the use of the Ionic Framework, and with this project I am using the recently released (at the time of this post) Ionic 4 which makes it an agnostic framework, so I can use it with any other framework of my choice while using Ionic’s components instead of just Angular. Thus, the reason for this project.
As a web developer, I want to increase my skill sets; especially after a few weeks of having to look for a new job, I’ve noticed a trend with companies looking for JavaScript developers. Honestly, there are so many JavaScript frameworks and libraries someone should make a deck of playing cards with their logos. Plus, my interest to learn the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, and NodeJS) been building prior to being let go. I felt it was time that I dive into one of the JavaScript frameworks Ionic is going to be support with version four.
Vue, one of the two JavaScript frameworks (the other is React) is going to have full support with the Ionic Framework. I wanted to learn Vue from quite some time. I originally wanted to use Onsen, a similar framework to Ionic where you can use web tools to develop mobile apps, and it had support to use Vue. I guess in some ways, I was glad that I learned Angular, and if I did not I do not know how things would had went. It took me a good while to learn what I know about Angular, and there are areas I still do not know fully like ReactiveJS (RXJS) with Observables.
With the one and a half years of experience with Angular; I already feel confident with Vue with in a few weeks to a month. I enjoy working with the framework as it just makes sense. I just find it funny with this project I struggled more getting around the new version of Ionic than I did with Vue. The only thing I am struggling with Vue is best practices with the file and directory structure. I get that components (sans the App component) should be multi-word named, but directories I am not sure. Perhaps it is by best practice.
Hope you’ll come with me in this crazy journey as I start to develop my first Vue mobile/application project with Ionic 4.
Image from Ionic's Official Blog