What making a game in Vue.js taught me about Front-end development

This is the most useful thing I have ever done in my career. I have created my masterpiece, my magnus opus. Beethoven himself would be shaking in his little boots at the awe of this creation. Dear reader, I’ve done it, I have created: “Battleshit”.

https://codepen.io/cpow/pen/JqVjRL

A disclaimer

I want to make it perfectly clear that I know the code here is terrible. It was hastily written, it probably has bugs, and it doesn’t follow vue.js conventions all that well, at least, to my understanding.

So why write it?

I wanted to learn just a little bit about Vue.js and to prove a little theory I’ve had for some time now. That theory goes like this: All javascript component frameworks operate in mostly the same way. They all have similar patterns, conventions, and best practices. And they’re all very easy to pick up and start programming with. Our over-engineering of tools, tooling, and the lack of a large standard lib in Javascript is what makes front-end programming hard. Having to learn Vue.js, or React, or Ember, or Angular is easy; having to learn the respective ECOSYSTEM of these frameworks is difficult. In Front-end development, all the concepts are the same, we just find more and more clever ways to make them difficult to understand.

In Front-end development, all the concepts are the same, we just find more and more clever ways to make them difficult to

understand.

So, onto BattleShit

This is a really really silly game I made in about an hour, give or take. I just wanted to learn Vue.js a little bit, and through that, understand our ever evolving front-end ecosystem just a little bit more. I can safely say that after Battleshit, I have a greater understanding that we are just re-inventing the wheel over and over again.

Anyway, enjoy Battleshit!