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Episode 66: RFC The Vue - Vuex 5

Key Points From This Episode:

  • A brief description of Vuex, a Redux pattern, but implemented in Vue.
  • All the new features on the horizon for Vuex 5 to be found in the RFC.
  • Removing mutations and allowing updates to state to happen via actions.
  • Flux architecture as a conceptual framework for data flow through your application.
  • Whether there is any need for the Vuex store considering the Vue3 composition API.
  • Perspectives on the decision to get rid of modules and have multiple global stores.
  • Getting away from a mixin paradigm with hook-into methods and moving to pure state.
  • Composition-based stores rather than passing in objects and the advantages of this.
  • Different ways of using the composition API and what the future might hold.
  • Not having to reference the dot value part of each property when using a composition store.
  • Discussing what it means that Vuex 5 is proposing automatic store registration.
  • How circular store references work and the limited support for these in Vuex 5.
  • The addition of plugins, how to use them, and how store actions could trigger router actions.
  • TypeScript support, how to link it with plugins, and the extra accessibility this provides.
  • Serialization and hydration, what this means, and how it allows for data to be stored and rebuilt.
  • An overview of the structure of the RFC and how user-friendly it was to read.

Tweetables:

  • “The current thinking is, why don't we just not have mutations and allow updates to state to happen in an action?” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:03:41]
  • “Dare I say, this almost feels like mixins, but make it name-spaced. You’re just rolling all the stuff in. It feels cleaner somehow.” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:15:58]
  • “This whole thing feels very exciting in a very weird way. Because I feel I'm more familiar with this non-existent Vuex 5 than I am with the existing Vuex 3 that I've been using for the past few years.” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:28:43]
  • “This is a really, really big change in how things work” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:36:11]

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