As you may know, the release of vue-cli 3 is getting close (currently at RC3 status). I really like the streamlined way of starting projects and having a good baseline for development (especially when trying to setup a good starting point in house, that has documentation and it’s actively developed). However the default setup isn’t friendly with legacy projects because vue-cli implicitly adds a hash to the generated filenames. That’s great if you’re starting a new project/SPA because it’s like a built in cache buster but doesn’t help if you’re trying to integrate it with your favourite c#/php/python/ruby etc application....

Reading the following tutorial regarding a VueJS component that displays the character count for a textarea got me thinking. You see, the problem is that when Javascript was first created it didn’t had proper UTF-8 support. Javascript’s internal encoding is UCS-2 or UTF-16 depending the articles you find on the internet. (actually there’s an awesome article from 2012 that explains this in detail ) . What does that mean you say ?...