vue animations

Some of the most inspiring examples I’ve seen of front-end development have involved some sort of page transitions that look slick like they do in mobile apps. However, even though the imagination for these types of interactions seem to abound, their presence on actual sites that I visit do not. There are a number of ways to accomplish these types of movement!

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My last two projects hurled me into the JAMstack. SPAs, headless content management, static generation... you name it. More importantly, they gave me the opportunity to learn Vue.js. More than "Build a To-Do App" Vue.js, I got to ship real-life, production-ready Vue apps.

The agency behind Snipcart (Spektrum) wanted to start using decoupled JavaScript frameworks for small to medium sites. Before using them on client projects, however, they chose to experiment on themselves. After a few of my peers had unfruitful experiences with React, I was given the green light to prototype a few apps in Vue. This prototyping morphed into full-blown Vue apps for Spektrum connected to a headless CMS. First, I spent time figuring out how to model and render our data appropriately. Then I dove head first into Vue transformations to apply a much-needed layer of polish on our two projects.

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