In this episode of DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Sumit Kumar, the founder of Parqet.

Sumit shares his journey from getting into Web Development and Vue.js over to working at Stripe and eventually founding Parqet, a (German) portfolio tracker SaaS. Topics covered in the first part of our conversation include a lot of business insights, such as the transition from being a developer to being a founder, the challenges and benefits of bootstrapping, as well as the importance of marketing.

If you are interested in the business side of things, you definitely should not miss out.

Enjoy the episode!

Our Guest

Sumit Kumar

• Parqet (GER)
• BlueSky
• Twitter
• YouTube

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
• (01:28) - How did you get into Web Development and Vue.js?
• (04:53) - Converging Frameworks
• (07:39) - Previous Work Experiences and joining Stripe
• (10:15) - What did you learn from working at Stripe?
• (14:05) - The Front Page Test
• (16:39) - How did your start Parqet?
• (20:12) - The Transition from Developer to Founder
• (23:02) - Can you focus only on Programming as a Founder?
• (27:03) - Finding a CEO instead of being one
• (29:25) - Marketing is Half the Job
• (30:24) - How did Parqet grow?
• (39:56) - Why don't you share your MRR anymore?
• (43:15) - Why did you choose to bootstrap
• (49:26) - Niche down strategy
• (51:47) - Dealing with GDPR and localization
• (01:00:40) - Wrapping up

Links and Resources

• Fill out the State of Vue.js Survey
• And also the State of JS Survey 🙌

• Mastering Nuxt 3*
• DejaVue #E031 - All About VoidZero (with Evan You)
• Parqet (GER)
• The EMyth Revisited
• MAKE
• The Launch Livestream of Parqet fka. Tresor One (GER/ENG)
• Minimal Empires (GER)
• Verhältnismäßigkeit
• How to center a div

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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For the first time, the DejaVue Podcast goes "live"! Alex and Michael met up at VueConf Toronto and could do a whole DejaVue episode on stage. Of course, this is even more fun with guests, so they are joined by four speakers of the Conference.

• Evan You, Creator of Vue, Vite, Rolldown and Founder of VoidZero,
• Daniel Roe, Lead of the Nuxt Team,
• Sigrid Huemer, Software Engineer at Sentry, and
• John Leider, Creator of Vuetify.

But that's not the end! The audience could ask questions to the whole panel, while the DejaVue hosts curated and selected the most interesting ones.
Learn more about how all of the panelists started with Open Source, which were their biggest achievements, how Impostor Syndrome influenced them, what talks they'd be interested in as speakers and much more

Enjoy the Episode!

Our Panelists

Evan You

• Vue.js
• Vite
• VoidZero
• Bluesky

Daniel Roe

• Website
• YouTube
• Bluesky

Sigrid Huemer

• Website
• Bluesky

John Leider

• Website
• Twitter

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue Live
• (00:38) - Introducing our panelists
• (02:29) - How did you get into Open Source?
• (06:23) - What side projects are you working on?
• (11:40) - Do you feel the impostor syndrome?
• (18:53) - What were your biggest achievements so far?
• (22:42) - How to get started contributing to Open Source?
• (34:37) - What kind of talks would you be interested in?
• (38:55) - Quickfire questions - What is your favorite Vue feature?
• (39:32) - Options API or Composition API?
• (39:46) - ref or reactive?
• (40:03) - Tabs vs. Spaces?
• (40:34) - Favorite Editor?
• (40:52) - Conferences in person or remote?
• (41:06) - Git - Rebase or Merge?
• (41:28) - Podcast, Video or Blogposts?
• (41:48) - Your favorite way of writing CSS?
• (42:42) - What is your favorite Frontend Framework?

Links and Resources

• Fill out the State of Vue.js Survey
• And also the State of JS Survey 🙌

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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Security is a topic that is often overlooked in the frontend world. But at least for you all - no longer! To make sure we cover Security for Vue and Nuxt applications as broad as possible, Michael and Alex are joined by Jakub Andrzejewski, who is not only a Senior Frontend Developer but also author of the Nuxt Security Module. We cover not only the module but also how to avoid common security mistakes as a Vue developer and how to protect your applications from vulnerabilities, and which are the most common ones.

Of course, we can't miss out on the State of Vue.js Survey, which is currently running and was co-created by Jakub as well!

Besides talking about the Security and the State of Vue.js, we also discuss how Jakub got into Vue.js at first and how he perceived the transition to Vue 3 and the Composition API.

Enjoy the episode!

Our Guest

Jakub Andrzejewski

• Blog
• Bluesky
• Twitter

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the DejaVue Podcast
• (00:12) - Introducing our Guest
• (02:07) - The Nuxt Ecosystem Team
• (07:47) - How did you get into Vue.js
• (13:09) - Transition to Vue 3 and Composition API
• (17:00) - React Livecoding as a Vue Dev
• (18:10) - vue-vine for multiple components
• (20:34) - State of Vue
• (30:30) - The Nuxt Security Module
• (37:36) - Will the module project you from everything?
• (41:59) - The ShipFast incident
• (45:05) - Ethical Hacking and NPM Security Vulnerabilities
• (49:24) - Privilege Escalation at Shopify
• (51:45) - Nuxt Security without a Server
• (54:28) - More Logic in the Frontend
• (55:38) - Nothing to Hide?
• (57:28) - Security Mistakes to Avoid as a Vue Developer
• (01:02:13) - Wrapping up

Links and Resources

• Fill out the State of Vue.js Survey
• And also the State of JS Survey 🙌

• Nuxt Security Module
• Vue Vine
• State of Frontend (Results out)
• OWASP Top 10
• DejaVue #E006 - Nuxt Server Components (with Julien Huang)
• Shipfast incident writeup

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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