Ed Freitas | Vue 3 Succinctly (2025) [PDF, EPUB] [EN]

Given its simplicity and powerful features, developers have flocked to the framework, making Vue one of the top currently trending projects on GitHub, and one of the world's leading javascript frameworks (at the time of writing this book) with no signs of slowing down. Besides its excellent productivity features, Vue's success is closely tied to javascript's ascension as the go-to language for developing modern web applications. Vue can also be used when starting an application from scratch—when you want to add more business logic to your front end rather than the back end. It has a rich package ecosystem that provides great core features and others that manage state and handle routing.
Vue allows applications to quickly scale by supporting reusable components out of the box—each has its own HTML, CSS, and javascript, meaning that an application can be split into smaller functional parts, which can be reused. All these features make Vue an excellent choice for developing front-end applications and a great framework to learn, making you a more productive and valuable developer in the market.
Vue 3 introduces several significant changes and improvements over Vue 2, such as the Composition API (the most critical difference between both versions), custom directives, smaller bundle size, improved TypeScript support, Vue Router, and performance improvements. We'll explore some of these differences later in the book.
Throughout this book, we'll build a web app that we can use to keep track of important personal documents that have expiration dates, such as passports, driver’s licenses, or credit cards—the same app described in Flutter Succinctly and Vue.js Succinctly (which covers Vue 2).