Category: Programming

Programming

Vue 3 Debugging with Breakpoints

So being a Vue newbie, one of the first thing I wanted to do for my Vue project is to setup the debugger, using Vue 3 and the Vue CLI specifically. I thought it would be a no-brainer, but it took me a while to get it going. While there is a good page from the official Vue website, this post is more intended for newbies to outline what I did to get debugging going. Debugging in Chrome or Firefox According to the official documentation, debugging in the browsers is as simple as installing the Vue DevTools extensions (or add-on) […]

Programming

Getting Started with PrimeVue

I’m playing around with Vue 3 and want to use a good UI component library. After some research, I found PrimeVue and am quite impressed by it: It has a massive number of UI components – arguably the most compared to other frameworks. It even has a full-blown text editor! The components are beautiful-looking and clean. There are a number of predefined themes to use and with potential tweaks – more on this later. Excellent documentation. MIT licensing. While the documentation of Vue and PrimeVue are excellent, there were some extra steps needed to get things working and customised. In […]

Productivity, Programming

Little Know Visual Studio Code Extensions

Over the last few years Visual Studio Code has taken over the programming communities by storm, quickly becoming the most used editor for programmers in the world. One of the strengths of Visual Studio Code is it comes with a plethora of extensions (or plugins) to boost productivity and simplify things easier for the programmers. There are plenty of resources listing the best of Visual Studio Code extensions. However, they tend to have the same extensions listed over and over again. While this is expected – because these extensions are wonderful – I thought it would be nice to list […]