Vue 2022 Review and 2023 Roadmap, Plus PHP Live Class Announcement

Vue author Evan You recently posted a review of Vue in 2022 and shared the project’s outlook for 2023.

Review of 2022

In February 2022 the default Vue version was switched to 3.x, marking that all official parts of the v3 framework were ready and the documentation was significantly updated with the latest best‑practice guides.

The ecosystem was still transitioning to Vue 3, so the team focused on improving developer experience by investing in tools. Team members contributed to Vite and released Volar 1.0, bringing major IDE and TypeScript support improvements.

During 2022 Vue 3’s NPM usage grew by nearly 200%. The ecosystem matured, delivering productivity‑boosting solutions. Nuxt 3 and Vuetify 3 reached stable status in November, NativeScript for Vue 3 launched a beta, and other projects such as Quasar, NaiveUI, Ionic Vue, PrimeVue, InkLine, and ElementPlus continued to thrive.

Although Vue 3 became the default, many users remained on Vue 2 due to migration costs. To benefit Vue 2 users, the source was moved to TypeScript and Vue 2.7 back‑ported key Vue 3 features, while Vite, Vue Devtools and Volar were made compatible with both versions.

What will happen in 2023?

Smaller and more frequent minor releases

With the final Vue 2 minor release (2.7) out, Vue 3 core features will be rolled out at full speed in 2023. The team plans to publish smaller, more frequent minor versions instead of the previous “big minor” releases, allowing faster delivery of new functionality.

The focus for version 3.3 will shift: while originally planned to graduate Suspense and Reactivity Transform from experimental status, both will undergo further RFC discussion. Instead, 3.3 will target proposals that can be implemented without extensive RFC debate, such as supporting external type imports in <script setup> macros.

Meanwhile, we will:

Further evaluate the readiness of Suspense and Reactivity Transform.

Spend time assessing unfinished user‑submitted RFCs and feature requests.

Publish RFCs for features planned for 3.4 and beyond, e.g., SSR lazy hydration.

There are no major breakthrough changes planned in the foreseeable future; the goal is to provide a smoother long‑term upgrade path from Vue 2 to Vue 3.

Vapor Mode

Vapor Mode is an experimental compilation strategy inspired by Solid. For the same Vue SFC, Vapor Mode compiles to higher‑performance JavaScript that uses less memory and requires less runtime support compared to the current virtual‑DOM‑based output.

Key points about Vapor Mode:

Targeted at performance‑focused use cases; it is optional and does not affect existing codebases.

Vapor component sub‑trees can be embedded into any existing Vue 3 application, with the aim of fine‑grained, component‑level opt‑in.

Building an app with only Vapor components allows removal of the virtual‑DOM runtime, significantly reducing bundle size.

For optimal performance, Vapor Mode supports only a subset of Vue features—specifically the Composition API and <script setup> . This subset works identically in both Vapor and non‑Vapor components.

For more details, see the original English article: https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/2022-year-in-review.html

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