Having a crack at Electron was a very fun experience - something that I’ve never tried before.

Albeit I do have a little pet peeve with Electron, mainly that it uses WebKit.
WebKit is great - don’get me wrong.

But

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I also learnt to use the Vue.js Javascript framework - Helpful for piecing different website components together with modularity and ease.

I originally opted out from using Vuex, which is Vue’s state management library - but soon came to realise that it was incredibly useful.

Essentially you can define methods that are required to be used in order to modify a value.

It did come with its quirks and niches.

Until I stumbled upon this GitHub issue page, I spent many hours fraught upon trying to get my event dispatcher to work.

I had to remove the createSharedMutations plugin in order for it to work.

I guess, one of the things that turned me off with using JS frameworks, is not knowing how they work behind the scenes. Personally I like to understand how exactly something works before using it - and with the sheer complexity and size of Vue, React, even Angular - it was quite overwhelming.

Once I got started though, it wasn’t too bad.

I used the Buefy library, which was a Vue integration of the Bulma CSS framework that I’ve recently been playing around with.

I quite liked how you were able to scope your CSS stylings between components, and that each component had its own reactive data states.