Adoping Vue at Wikimedia with Eric Gardner - VUE 165

Lindsay and Steve talk with Eric Gardner, Senior Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, about his journey from graphic design to Vue and the adoption of Vue at the Wikimedia Foundation. They discuss the challenges faced in MediaWiki, the core application behind Wikipedia, and how and why the foundation moved to adopt Vue as its frontend framework of choice. They also discuss some of the future developments at the Foundation, as well as some of the challenges that they still face. Panel

• Lindsay Wardell
• Steve Edwards

Guest

• Eric Gardner

Sponsors

• Dev Influencers Accelerator
• Level Up | Devchat.tv
• PodcastBootcamp.io

Links

• Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki
• Getty
• Wikimedia Commons
• Vue.js has been selected as Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework
• Abstract Wikipedia
• Vite
• Exploring Code Design – VUE 163
• Transitioning a Large Front-End Codebase to TypeScript ft. Priscila Oliveira and Mark Story – JSJ 498
• Get Started With TypeScript the Easy Way
• JavaScript Marathon: Upgrade to Typescript with Vue 3
• reMARKable - YouTube
• Wikimedia Phabricator
• Design Systems Team
• Twitter: Eric Gardner ( @ecgardner )

Picks

• Eric- reMARKable
• Lindsay- GitHub | lindsaykwardell/vite-elm-template

Contact Lindsay:

• Twitter: Lindsay Wardell ( @lindsaykwardell )

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• Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 )
• GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 )
• LinkedIn: Steve Edwards

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