In this episode, Adam talks to Evan You the creator of Vue.js about advanced component design patterns, and using features like scoped slots and render functions to build components that are much more than just UI widgets.

Show Notes

Topics include:

• What is a "higher order component"?
• How do you replicate the render prop pattern from React with Vue?
• Using scoped slots to build components with no UI
• Using render functions without using JSX
• How Vue's built-in components like `` work under the hood

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Links:

• Vue.js Homepage
• The Vue Point, the official Vue.js blog on Medium
• Higher-Order Components, from the React documentation
• "Use a Render Prop!" by Michael Jackson, an introduction to render prop components in React
• Scoped Slots documentation
• Render Functions documentation
• "Writing Abstract Components with Vue.js", tutorial on writing a render function component with Vue
• Fetch Component Demo, based on the component Evan describes in the podcast

What is Full Stack Radio?

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.