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RESTful APIs adhere to a reliable architectural standard for transferring data statelessly over the HTTP protocol. Every endpoint of an API semantically describes how a resource should be created ( POST ), read ( GET ), updated ( PUT / PATCH ), deleted ( DELETE ), etc. Large, data-driven applications consume data from multiple third-party/in-house sources, and each one exposes a unique set of endpoints to manage different resources. Adapting these applications to support a wide range of platforms and device sizes (commonly mobile, desktop and web) may present several problems: Using Facebook's GraphQL query language, the client specifies its exact data requirements to the server via a single endpoint. Establishing a schema (written with the syntax of the GraphQL Schema Definition Language) creates a contract between the client and server that defines what data can be read from and written to the data graph by the client. This data graph centralizes all of the APIs consumed by your application by mapping each field to a resolver that populates it with a value retrieved from an endpoint of one of these APIs, a database, etc. A client can fetch data from a GraphQL server via plain HTTP and then manually update the UI accordingly. However, GraphQL clients such as Apollo Client abstract away the low-level implementation details of these features underneath a declarative API. Built by the Apollo GraphQL team, Apollo Client is an open-source GraphQL client that provides a lot of out-of-the-box functionality for communicating with a GraphQL server:

Vue's Options API constrains the reusability of logic across multiple components. Patterns involving mixins and higher-order components (HOCs) have been established to create reusable blocks of code and consolidate repeated state and functionality. However, each pattern has a drawback: With Vue 3's Composition API , component logic can be extracted, shared and reused amongst multiple components. Exposing Vue's core capabilities (reactivity and lifecycle hooks) as standalone, globally available functions allows developers to create custom hooks that are decoupled from any UI, but yet, can be consumed by any component. This can greatly improve the maintainability and flexibility of a large application composed of hundreds of components. Let's walkthrough an example demo to demonstrate the simplicity of writing reusable code with the Composition API.

As the most starred open source, JavaScript library/framework repository on GitHub, Vue.js has become a top three front-end technology alongside React.js and Angular in terms of popularity, usage, ecosystem activity and developer satisfaction. Compared to React.js and Angular, Vue.js is incrementally adoptable and provides a declarative API that resonates with AngularJS developers. Evan You , the author of Vue.js, explained the original concept of Vue.js as extracting the best parts of AngularJS, such as directives (i.e., v-if and v-show ), and building a lightweight, flexible alternative. Building large Vue.js applications requires composing components together with state management (i.e., Vuex ) and routing (i.e., Vue Router ) libraries. In September 2020, the Vue.js team officially released Vue 3, which welcomed a number of improvements and new features: Particularly, the Composition API of Vue 3 has been met with controversy due to its resemblance to React hooks and its philosophical divergence from the Options API , which emphasizes separation of concerns by defining component logic within specific options ( data , props , computed , methods , etc.). For those who prefer the Options API, unlike other major version upgrades that introduce incompatible changes, the Composition API will not break existing Vue components using Options API (" purely additive "). Although it offers similar logic composition capabilities as React hooks, the Composition API leverages Vue's reactivity system to circumvent several of React hooks' issues.