Quasar Vue Life: Recent Episodes
Luke Diebold
Welcome to the Quasar Life podcast!
This show is for coders who want to learn the mindset, and life skills behind being a Web Developer. Learn from Luke Diebold. Core Quasar Team member, and creator of QuasarCast.Com
Why haven't we seen many 'let's build an xyz app' tutorials for Quasar? I'll tell you why in this podcast!
How cool would it be if we had an army of Quasar developer, building amazing projects across the planet!?
Here's a thought... Maybe we shouldn't be sending down too many objects to our lower level components? Especially models, because that creates a coupling to our components and our models! Let's talk about this...
It's always easier to build something you can see in your minds eye! Let's talk about that in the podcast!
Cypress, Component Testing, Onboarding new devs! Got a lot of exciting thoughts to share in this one!!!
This is kind of a weird idea... But I think I like it! Creating a fake story to easily generate business data for testing!
I've made this mistake far too many times... half baked APIs that get stuck in my code base. How do we avoid that!?
Errr typescript. It yells at me all the time, makes coding slow and always felt like a drag... So is it really worth it?
The vast majority of people underestimate their brain. Give it a chance to solve your problems, and you'll be dumbfounded by what you can learn!
Wow, so much to learn when building a js package! In this podcast I'll tell you how firebase-composables was born, and what I've discovered about building open source packages while building it!
I get this question quite a lot. 'How do I use Tailwind with Quasar?'. In this podcast, we'll talk about this option, and if it event makes sense in the first place!
Oh wow! I had NO IDEA this would work so well... At the company I work for, we've been trying a 'Documentation First' approach when building APIs and it's rocking our world!!!
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) is a great rule to go by! But just how possible is it to keep things simple, while allowing for all the flexibility you need!?
Maybe this podcast needs to become a checklist? When starting a new Quasar app, there’s a few things I almost always do! This is what they are...
ARRGG! I HATE it when it’s difficult to reset my applications state! In this podcast, we’ll talk about rolling back application state so that your life is a whole lot easier :)
We’ve had a second developer where I work for a while now and he’s awesome! Problem is... I needed to learn how to be a better communicator, and maintain clarity between us… Here’s one of my ideas on how to do just that!
I can barely believe my eyes! This composition API library takes 90% of my struggles as a Vue dev... and Make’s them disappear!
We all go through valleys as developers. Moments when we just “aren’t feeling it”… These moments are why we NEED BASELINES. Let’s talk about that in this podcast...
If you take the time to understand what’s going on in your mind – how humans learn and record concepts via revision – you realise that there is truly NOTHING you can’t build...
The foundation of “food, sleep and exercise” is clearly needed for peak performance and focus BUT... There’s a couple of other things at play.
In marketing, there’s a concept of “casting a wide net” when you first start advertising. You can then narrow down on your audience as they reveal themselves to you! This concept fits perfectly with coding! Let’s talk about how it.
Pinia is a wonderful way to manage state with the composition API! But if vuex-5 is around the corner, should we bother giving it a try? I’m starting to think… yes.
Vue has started to make some stronger recommendations on how the framework should be used! The three points (provided by Evan himself) are summed up in this podcast!
Here’s the thread with Evan’s comment… https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/discussions/378#discussioncomment-1158805
I used to use an AMAZING screenshot tool called “deepin screenshot”. Section of screen → Clipboard was EASY! Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for me anymore BUT I found something better...
One of the guys I work with (Pat) has been doing some awesome things with the composition API that’s making my life a whole lot better! In this episode, I’ll share some of those ideas, and hint at a secret Quasar porject coming soon...
It's easy to come across smart. Just talk about SPECIFIC things that YOU know, and others likely WOULDN'T know. Once you understand this, the world is not as scary :)
It's the story of just about everyone's life. We want to do amazing things, but other less important things in life steal our focus. No more I say! DESTROY seeds of distraction before they take control of your life!
Imagine knowing EXACTLY where to put new files as you abstract code and create new files! Let's talk about this with one of my favourite quotes by Benjamin Franklin... "a place for everything and everything in its place".
There's a pattern many mid developers go through. Coming up with PROBLEMS, without enough thought for SOLUTIONS. Let's talk about this...
Yes! You absolutely CAN learn Quasar's component library and let me tell you... It feels ah...mazing when you have that kind of power!!!
This podcast is kinda like a smorgasbord of ideas for choosing a backend for realtime! There's a bazillion options, so allow me to help you lift the fog and find what you're looking for!!!
This is important, don't miss this episode!... We'll be talking about ways we can INCREASE our CAPACITY so that we get more $&%@#$ done! One of the most important lessons of my life and I want to share it with you :)
In today's podcast, I share a few thoughts about the different ways of learning new technologies. As you likely know by now... There's more to it than meets the eye!
QuasarCast has a vision. That vision involves a LOT of free content... But do you think I'm going too far with this? Let's talk about it in this podcast!
'yarn add moment' is waaay too easy to do and can 10x your projects size! in the podcast, we talk about taking the time to choose technologies wisely...
Man, I love automation! It's fun to set up, makes me feel like a pro and saves me time to do stuff I actually enjoy!
Ever felt like your brain is totally baked from too much information! Yea, I've totally been there!
Postman is wonderful. It makes playing with APIs fun, and is a piece of cake to use. But this other tool is just... Better.
Now that you have some awesome component building ideas, let's dive into some tips for building components the RIGHT way with quasar!
For most of our data input/display needs, Quasar has our back! There are however a few base components we can build to make life that little bit easier :)
This is another one of those "OMG I'M WAY TOO EXCITED AND" kind of podcasts! API tooling is BLOWING my mind!!!
You know what REALLY grinds my gears? Something that's important, and confused by coders all over...
Yes, you CAN stay on top of it all...
Connect with the reason you code, find your WHAT, and execute.
You wouldn't BELIEVE the spaghetti code I've weaved myself into in the past! Yet I'm wiser now... and here's what I've learned.
Hygen.io and plopjs.com are insane! I couldn't believe the productivity boost, and they're both 100% free and open source tools!!!
CSS has some pretty amazing, mind bending things in store for the future! I'd love to share a few of them with you!!!
This may be my all time favourite productivity hack for Web Developers...
Here's a link to the autokey snippets: https://gist.github.com/ldiebold/953a9c126af7b60a30bb3e143f081fd6
Matomo is like google analytics... But it's free, and you can run it on your own server!
I LOVE it (they're not paying me to say that!)
This backend tool make analyzing your data an absoute joy! think SQL, but with graphs and an interface that makes joins super easy!!!
Why is it that some web developers can build sites so rediculously fast... While others take seemingly forever?
This podcast, will give you the answer :)
Here's a couple of my processes...
DISHES
put away clean dishes
starting from one end of the bench
- put item away
- rinse item if too dirty
- put dishes in order of size
clean dishes
soak larger items if no room
BUILDING LAYOUTS
Design skeleton using whiteboard, with colors
for each section
- create skeleton, with fake heights and background colors, with all columns set to xs
- add content to the skeleton
- set positioning and aligning for the content, and make it responsive
- Style the content
What's more important... Getting the washing done, or building a business that will change your life forever?
I spent too much of my life trying to max out my energy and motivation. There's another way...
The number #1 question I get from the community is "Can you do a video showing me how to setup quasar with XYZ backend". Here's my response :)
Crafting Vue/Quasar components that are easy to use and extendable are LOVED by just about everyone. In this episode, we talk about this concept!
It can be hard moving from an intermediate developer, to an advanced developer (whatever that means!).
In this episode, we talk about bridging that gap!
Want to learn quasar through videos?
Sweet! Checkout quasarcast.com/register and I'll see you on the other side :)