Launching SaasFrontends v1.0 – Vue2, Vue3, React and Svelte starter templates
In 2020, I released my first boilerplate for building SaaS applications, netcoresaas.com. It included a Vue2 frontend with a .NET backend.
Not until 1 year later, I was able to migrate from Vue2 to Vue3, Vue3 to React and React to Svelte.
Introducing SaasFrontends v1.0.
As they say, If it were easy, everyone would do it.
Challenges:
- Creating the Boilerplate
- Migrating Vue2 to Vue3
- Migrating Vue3 to React
- Migrating React to Svelte
- Creating the Documentation
- Creating free UI Components
- Creating the Editions
- Publishing Demos
- Publishing Codebases
- Publishing on Gumroad
- Creating the Blog
1. Creating the boilerplate
Back in 2020, I had just finished a project which consisted in migrating a 4GL to a desktop .NET application. I decided it was time to move it to the web, but I had zero knowledge in JavaScript and CSS.
I figured it would be nice to migrate my Desktop App to the Web with the mindset of making it a boilerplate for other devs like me. That led me into testing JavaScript frameworks and when I tried out Vue (v2), I immediately loved it.
I was thinking of using Bootstrap, since it has most common UI components, but I read about Tailwind CSS, and it honestly changed the whole picture for me, I never liked raw CSS. I bought Tailwind UI Marketing + Application package (you should get it), and started to learn with it.
They don’t have Vue2 components so it was a bit of a challenge when I tried to use functional components.
It took me 3 months of development + 3 months of marketing, and the end product was netcoresaas.com, my first web product.
