Vue

The most common follow-up question I got about the post I wrote on Django last month had nothing to do with Django at all. It was about a comment I tossed off about React and Vue, and my regret in choosing Vue all those years ago.1Which is a far cry from 2017, when I called Vue pragmatic and meant it as the highest compliment. I don't want this to be a particularly harsh or negative essay, so let me start with how I made the decision — which was, in retrospect and given how Buttondown has grown, laughably naive. I chose Django and Vue because I had just started a job in which I would be writing Django and Vue, and I didn't want to have to context switch. I was a pretty mature Django developer at that point but an immature Vue developer, so I thought of this as a great opportunity to learn the framework.2In a fit of cosmic irony, said company has since gone under. Buttondown persists. To be clear: on the scale of poor technical choices I've made with Buttondown, Vue is certainly not in…

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