Vue, Amsterdam, Rock & Roll.
Tags: javascript, programming, vue, amsterdam
Published: 2023-02-13 07:44:33

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**Amsterdam**

First of all, it was my first visit to such a beautiful city, which is equally great for families, young and old people, with a lot of places for rest, active life, cultural opportunities, and great green parks. A few years ago I visited Rotterdam and I had the same feeling, but Amsterdam is a different story, it gave me a positive mood for the first [Vuejs Conference](https://vuejs.amsterdam/) Day. As you now understand the reason for visiting Amsterdam was 2 days Vuejs conference.

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**Conference days.**

Have you ever listened to live music at tech conferences? no? Me neither, it was insane, and at that moment, I realized that I was in the rightest place in the world. And it was just beginning, after, we were listening to real Rock and roll with chuck berry.

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Let’s go for some “Vue talks”. First of all, it is worth visiting Vue Amsterdam. If you like team sports, for example, football or hockey, you can understand the difference between watching from the stadium and TV, or maybe you like theatre? Here is the same story can’t explain it in a different way. Creators, and collaborators, are like actors on tv, not real, but at conferences, you can see them and talk with them. It may change your mind, they are ordinary people without special superhero power… hmmm maybe you also can be like that? You just have to want :)

I want to highlight Vite, which made our life Better, Faster, Stronger. While the last talk of the first day, I don’t remember whom, but a very interesting topic was mentioned, one of Vite core members said that he never contribute to open source in his 20-year career as a developer. But for now, he is a core member and making a great job for us. I’m sure this should be an example to me and others that we can all improve the world of programming. Maybe not today or tomorrow but sooner or later we can all contribute to the common cause, and exchange experience and knowledge.

![Vite team](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/8064/1*RSDmb-fYQBy-BU7T_t749w.png)

Please do not judge the photographer and models, we were just enjoying delicious food, thanks to the chefs, really good tastes.

![Me, Barbara, and Bobby](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/8000/1*CNOUaG_lbO_V_SPem4lrhg.jpeg)

At the conference, you also could see many sponsors’ merchandise tables with some souvenir stickers, etc. Most of them you can see in the first photo of this post. Most of the presented companies were Vjue.js related.

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Afterparty was with beer, wine, dance, and many positive emotions.

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**We**

So we are [Flightradar24 ](https://www.flightradar24.com/)and I am Frontend (Vue.js) developer here, pretty sure you used our app at least once in your life, or maybe you are a premium user like multiple developers we met at the conference.

![Me, Barbara, and Bobby](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/6032/1*Dy_KeC3-9q4_4SoVq5_muw.png)

Our current app is written on vanilla.js, Angular, Vue, and jQuery, so we are rewriting it to Vue3 with Composition API, TypeScript, Vite, Vitest, and some other Vue ecosystem packages and tools. The app is close to a big release, and I think our new app is quite progressive and modern, but developers should always learn more and improve code quality, that's why it is very important to attend conferences workshops, etc.

My special attention was on tests, I really liked Debbie O’Brien’s speech, even though we use Cypress, but Markus was on the top for me. In the future, we are thinking about Nuxt3 or implementing SEO with Vue3 only, so talking about Nuxt also was 100% relevant for us. Our developer Bobby, made conversation with Nuxt members and we planned a meeting about migrating perspectives to Nuxt. Yes, I have to mention Bjorn and Lucie, their talks about packaging and open source are maybe most important than anything else.

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That is one of the opportunities of conferences, you can talk with creators directly, face to face and make decisions very fast, collaborate, or even brainstorm.

**End of Conference.**

I nothing have to say, just want to add one very important thing. Use design patterns, and best practices.
For example, design pattern -> Duck face

and my best practice.

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**Friend.**

David met me at Schiphol airport and showed me Amsterdam's beauties places. He is UX/UI designer and my ex-coworker from [redberry](https://www.linkedin.com/company/redberry-%E2%80%A2-%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98/), currently, he is based in Amsterdam and works for a fascinating startup [Stackbrowser](https://stackbrowser.com/).

With collaboration, me and David, have made his personal website [petro.design](https://petro.design/), and that of course was written on Vue(Nuxt), so it is somehow also Vue story in Amsterdam.

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David recommended visiting Amaze Amsterdam, and I can say, that it was really “Amazing”! Little art can open the mind… Yes, I know, I know, Amsterdam can “unlock” your hidden talents in different ways 🥦 [🍄](https://emojipedia.org/mushroom/), But art can change your mind to infinity and beyond.

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**Negative and for future.**

Can you believe, that I was in Amsterdam but didn’t visit Van Gogh museum? Yes, unfortunately, it happened to me :( because of tragedy and horrible situation in Turkey and also weather conditions, my first flight from Tbilisi to Istanbul was delayed and my second flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam was changed, I lost almost a full day and couldn’t find time for rebooking the Van Gogh museum ticket. For now, it is extra motivation to revisit Vue.js Amsterdam next year.

That's all, see you this summer at WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin and that is what I’m planning to visit.