A trending project
Evan You started working on the first prototype of Vue in 2013, while working at Google, using Angular. The initial goal was to have all the cool features of Angular, such as data binding and data-driven DOM, but without the extra concepts that make this framework opinionated and heavy to learn and use.
The first public release was published on February 2014 and had immediate success the very first day, with HackerNews frontpage, /r/javascript at the top spot and 10k unique visits on the official website.
The first major version 1.0 was reached in October 2015, and by the end of that year, the npm downloads rocketed to 382k ytd, the GitHub repository received 11k stars, the official website had 363k unique visitors, and ...
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