serverless-websockets-quest VS Vue.js

Live demo

Hi all, I created a web app (ADnD style mini game) recently to demonstrate how to use serverless WebSockets (Ably) and combine it with Azure Functions to send realtime updates to the client (based on VueJS and hosted on Azure Static Web Apps). The Azure Functions use Durable Entities (part of Durable Functions) to store a centralized game state, and as soon as the state is updated the clients are notified of this change. Full blog post is here, the game can be played here, and you can have look at the code on GitHub.

[JsonObject(MemberSerialization.OptIn)] public class GameState : IGameState { // Only showing the class members relevant for this blog section. // For the full implementation see https://github.com/ably-labs/serverless-websockets-quest/blob/main/api/Models/GameState.cs [JsonProperty("questId")] public string QuestId { get; set; } [JsonProperty("phase")] public string Phase { get; set; } public async Task InitGameState(string[] gameStateFields) { QuestId = gameStateFields[0]; Phase = gameStateFields[1]; await _publisher.PublishUpdatePhase(QuestId, Phase); } [JsonProperty("players")] public List PlayerNames { get; set; } public async Task AddPlayerName(string playerName) { if (PlayerNames == null) { PlayerNames = new List { playerName }; } else { PlayerNames.Add(playerName); } if (IsPartyComplete) { await UpdatePhase(GamePhases.Play); await Task.Delay(2000); await AttackByMonster(); } } public async Task UpdatePhase(string phase) { Phase = phase; await _publisher.PublishUpdatePhase(QuestId, Phase); } private async Task AttackByMonster() { var playerAttacking = CharacterClassDefinitions.Monster.Name; var playerUnderAttack = GetRandomPlayerName(); var damage = CharacterClassDefinitions.GetDamageFor(CharacterClassDefinitions.Monster.CharacterClass); await _publisher.PublishPlayerAttacking(QuestId, playerAttacking, playerUnderAttack, damage); await Task.Delay(1000); var playerEntityId = new EntityId(nameof(Player), Player.GetEntityId(QuestId, playerUnderAttack)); Entity.Current.SignalEntity(playerEntityId, proxy => proxy.ApplyDamage(damage)); await Task.Delay(1000); var nextPlayerName = GetNextPlayerName(CharacterClassDefinitions.Monster.Name); await _publisher.PublishPlayerTurnAsync(QuestId, $"Next turn: {nextPlayerName}", nextPlayerName); } }

Vuejs

Vue.js is a big favorite for making websites because it's easy to use and fits in well with other stuff. Many people worldwide are using it, and the community keeps growing.

Vue has a thriving ecosystem with a wide range of third-party libraries and plugins available for extending its functionality. These libraries cover everything from state management to routing, making it easy for developers to find solutions to common problems and enhance their development workflow. As of this writing, Vue has 200k GitHub stars.

6. Vue.js

I have got the privilege of working on Vue 2 couple of months ago and its really amazing framework to work with .

Angular is as little innovative for web frameworks as Firefox-ESR is for browsers. It merely keeps copying features from other frameworks - just many years later. It is a chronically outdated framework that always struggles to keep up with its competitors. It would be ok if those were deliberate design decisions, but if the features get copied some day anyway, what is the point? Why not do it the right way from the start?

For example, this update brings us computed properties, an essential feature for any complex performant web application that was made popular by Vue.js 10 years ago [1]. And now in 2023 we get it in Angular, essentially a confirmation by its devs that its lack has always been a design error.

I also cannot understand the "mature" argument. For example, it took five years for documentation on `` to arrive [2]. This is something I'd expect from the side project of a lone programmer, not an enterprise-level framework.

The only upsides of Angular are its "batteries included" approach and the (debatable) default of RXJS, while the downsides are plenty.

[1] https://github.com/vuejs/vue/tree/218557cdec830a629252f4a9e2...

It's down since months. https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues/11867

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Vue.js is a progressive open-source MVVM frontend JavaScript framework that is designed to be implemented incrementally since the core library focuses only on the presentation layer. Nevertheless, this framework is used for building UI (user interfaces) and complex single-page applications with modern tools and libraries to support them. It enables you to take advantage of libraries for client-side routing and state management when you need it.