Vue.js Development

From greenfield development to minor enhancements, we have the skills and experience to get the most out of Vue.js.

Advanced Development with Vue.js

Vue.js is one of the primary frameworks that are used for creating highly interactive and dynamic web applications. Vue.js combines many of the benefits of two of the other popular frameworks - Angular and React.

It is similar to React in that it focuses on the application's user interface. The user interface is generally one of the most common sources of complexity in a web application. Like React, Vue.js uses a reactive, component based-approach to allow the interface to be broken down into simple, easily tested components that can be composed together to deliver rich user experiences. A reactive architecture enables developers to adopt a declarative approach to managing the application state - they simply specify the application's appearance based on its state, and Vue.js efficiently handles the transformations required to update the page.

Vue.js is similar to Angular in its adoption of the classic triad of web technologies- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This choice allows many development teams to quickly add Vue.js into existing applications with minimal additional training. Vue.js uses intelligent templates bound to custom components to generate aspects of the user interface, with the reactive bindings being managed by the framework itself.

Why Develop with SitePen

SitePen prides itself on being a web-first development company. While we offer an extensive set of development services, front-end development is what we do best. Our extensive experience allows us to meet our clients where they are at. If a client has a particular framework in mind, we can use it to achieve their goals. If, however, they are open to different approaches, then we can analyze their requirements and determine which framework would be best suited to their specific needs. Our ability to help goes beyond merely making suggestions. Our initial engagements with clients often involve an intense analysis of the client's skills, resources, and requirements. These engagements ensure that the solutions we provide are performant, efficient, well-structured, and tailored to fit seamlessly into the client's existing software ecosystem.

Vue.js Development Services

SitePen's rich understanding of Vue.js and the broader web application ecosystem makes us an excellent choice for your next project.

Single-Page App Development

Single-page applications (SPAs) have become the standard for web applications today. Their ability to deliver fluid user experiences while minimizing network traffic makes them an ideal choice for even the most demanding enterprise applications. The Vue.js ecosystem includes a high-quality in-page routing solution and a flux-based statement management solution to support this common type of application. These libraries integrate seamlessly into Vue.js applications to allow engineers to develop SPAs without worrying about conflicts and inconsistent APIs. Vue.js also contains first-class support for animations and transitions. These features are ideally suited for adding subtle visual cues to enhance an application's user experience.

Custom App Development

Many application development efforts involve adding new features to an existing solution. Vue.js is designed to be very lightweight and easily integrate into existing web applications. Vue.js can manage a small part of the application, allowing new features to be added while leaving the rest of the application unaltered. Since Vue.js only concerns itself with the user interface, it can easily be tied into the existing business and state tracking aspects of the existing application.

Vue.js Migration Services

The transition from Vue 2 to Vue 3 is substantial and migrating applications to the latest version of the framework can be challenging. Our team has extensive experience with this kind of migration and has processes in place to make sure that the migration proceeds smoothly. We start by pinning down existing functionality, either by familiarizing ourselves with the existing test suite or developing one that verifies the existing capabilities. We then migrate the project to the latest version of Vue, testing and verifying each step of the process. Finally, when we are sure that everything is working as intended, our engineering team takes advantage of the new features and capabilities to refine and upgrade the application to get the most out of the enhancements that Vue 3 brings.

Vue.js Consultation

Many of our engagements start as highly technical consultations. Our clients might be considering whether to use Vue.js in a new project, or they might be thinking of enhancing an existing application. They often bring us onto the project to augment their knowledge and experience with our own. These short-term projects allow us to get to know one another and familiarize ourselves with the problem-space. At the end of the engagement, our clients receive a detailed list of recommendations for the next steps that we feel will give the development project its highest chance of success.

Vue.js Support and Maintenance

Like many web development technologies, Vue.js is constantly evolving and adding new features. We provide support and maintenance services to ensure that existing code bases take advantage of the latest refinements to the framework. These engagements ensure that your applications continue to run efficiently and can grow to meet new user requirements in the future.

Technologies We Use

Vue has a tightly integrated ecosystem. We use each of these technologies to maximize the performance and stability of our web applications.

Vue.js
Vue Router
Vuex
Vue CLI
Vue Test Utils
Jest
Mocha
TypeScript

Industries We Serve

Among SitePen's greatest strengths is its wide-ranging experience across multiple industries. We have worked with some of the most notable names in numerous markets, with each engagement serving to refine our ability to address each enterprise's individual needs. Among the industries that we have worked within are:

Financial services
Healthcare
Hospitality
Public Safety

Choosing the Right Vue.js Development Team

Vue.js makes it much easier to create high-performance web applications than many other frameworks. However, Vue offers a lot of flexibility with how the application is organized. To get the most out of Vue.js, then, a development team needs to have the architectural knowledge to develop the ideal layout for the application's business logic, state management, and server integration subsystems to optimize development velocity, application performance, and maintainability. Ultimately, Vue.js is a tool for building web applications. When used by a skilled and experienced team, it can be used to create cutting-edge applications that offer exceptional user experiences. Without the proper skill set, however, a development team can fail to meet the project's goals regardless of their tools' quality.

Benefits of Using Vue.js

Vue.js is an excellent choice for building small- to medium-sized enterprise applications. Its tightly integrated ecosystem delivers a consistent developer experience no matter how little or how much of Vue's ecosystem is being used. Additionally, Vue.js uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the three elementary front-end technologies; developers don't need to learn new languages to start using it. Finally, since Vue.js doesn't mandate how the business logic and application state are managed, it is an excellent framework for teams that want to maximize their freedom to organize the application's non-visual aspects.

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Vue.js FAQs

What Can Vue.js Do?

Vue.js is a full-featured web application development framework that is optimized for delivering high-performance single-page applications. Its robust component-based reactive architecture encourages developers to follow best practices, such as code reuse, through mechanisms such as custom directives and mixins.

Why Should My Business Use Vue.js?

Vue.js may be a good solution to explore if your development teams have a lot of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript-based applications and are comfortable continuing with those technologies as the basis for their applications. Vue.js is also an excellent choice for adding new features to existing applications using a cutting-edge framework. Vue.js is very lightweight and is designed to integrate with existing applications seamlessly.

What Are Some Features of the Vue.js Framework?

Vue.js is a component-based web application framework that uses a reactive architecture to synchronize the user interface to its state. Its component system contains powerful features such as web component-inspired slots, dependency injection, asynchronous components, mixins, and more. This rich set of capabilities allows developers to optimize each component to perform well while remaining open to reuse and future enhancements. Beyond the core offering, Vue.js contains additional libraries that support in-page routing for single-page web applications and flux-based state management via the Vuex project. Finally, to give developers the best possible experience, Vue.js has additional projects that simplify test creation and enhance the native debugging capabilities of web browsers with Vue-specific tools.