As the new year is approaching, You Yuxi recently issued a message to remind the Vue community that Vue 2 will reach end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2023; and called on development teams still using Vue 2 to consider Migrate to the latest Vue 3 version.
Vue 2.0 was released in 2016, more than 7 years ago. You Yuxi said that version 2.0 is an important milestone in the journey of Vue becoming a mainstream framework. "However, proactively maintaining two major releases in parallel is not sustainable for us. As Vue 3 and its ecosystem mature, it's time for the team to move forward and focus their efforts on the latest major release."
As the EOL date of Vue 2.0 version approaches, he suggested that the Vue community should prepare for the deprecation of Vue 2. On December 31st, the Vue team will mark the following packages as deprecated on npm:
- All major and minor versions of Vue 2 core
- vue-router version that specifically supports Vue 2 (3.x and lower versions)
- vuex version that specifically supports Vue 2 (3.x and lower versions)
After December 31, 2023, Vue 2 will no longer receive new features, updates, or fixes, but will still be available on all existing distribution channels (CDN, package managers, GitHub, etc.). In other words, the user's application will continue to work, but will receive a deprecation warning from the package manager reminding them that Vue 2 is no longer a supported version.
Vue 3 has been the default version of Vue since February 7, 2022. You Yuxi said that users after migration will be able to enjoy:
- Better performance with smaller bundle sizes and faster rendering.
- Enhanced TypeScript support makes large-scale application development easier.
- A more efficient agent-based reactive system.
- New built-in components such as Fragment, Teleport and Suspense.
- Improved build tool support, Vue Devtools experience, and more.
For users who are temporarily unable to migrate or move forward, he also provides some other suggestions: update to the final version of Vue 2, or purchase extended support for Vue 2, and share the relevant Vue 2 EOL plan with users . 2.7.16, released on December 24 , is the final version of Vue 2 and includes some final fixes to 2.7 functionality and improved type alignment with Vue 3.
"The end of Vue 2 only marks a new beginning - 2024 will be an exciting year for Vue!"