Tech Inside

While working with Nimiq’s libraries, you can rely on ES2015 compliance. But when looking inside, you’ll find we use Vue.js and TypeScript.

Why Vue.js

Following a period of research, we have decided to use Vue.js for our upcoming front-ends. React was another consideration due to its larger market share, but Vue.js ended up convincing us for the following reasons:

• Clean separation of code and markup
• Open source governance, no dependence on a company
• Shorter learning curve
• Focused on simplicity: better presets, less configuration
• Smaller file size
• Support for calculated and cached values on top of state values

Why TypeScript

We have been using type JSDoc annotations in JavaScript in the Nimiq Core as well as in the Keyguard for a long time. These annotations where then checked and thus we had a situation very similar to using TypeScript. So it was just a logical step to start using TypeScript directly. it’s boosting our productivity.