1 – What You Need to Check in a Vue.js Developer's Profile Before Reaching Out
A developer who writes "Vue.js" on their LinkedIn profile tells you nothing about what they actually know how to do. The Vue stack evolved radically between Vue 2 and Vue 3. Here are the three checkpoints that separate a solid profile from a decorative one.
1.1: Vue 3 Composition API vs Options API — The Dividing Line
The Composition API introduced with Vue 3 changed the way logic is organized inside components. A developer who has only worked with the Options API (data, methods, computed, watch) can deliver functional code on simple projects. But as soon as your application exceeds twenty interconnected components, the lack of composable mastery (reusable functions extracted via the Composition API) produces duplication, cascading props drilling and unmanageable state. What you check: the candidate must be able to explain why they would choose ref over reactive in a specific case, how they structure a composable to share logic between components without going through a mixin (a deprecated pattern), and how they handle the lifecycle with onMounted and onUnmounted inside a setup script. If these terms provoke no reaction, the profile has stayed on Vue 2. That is not a dealbreaker for a legacy project, but it is a clear signal about the candidate's capacity to grow.
1.2: Nuxt — The Marker of Production Projects
Nuxt is to Vue what Next is to React: a framework that adds server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), automatic routing and an opinionated project structure. A Vue.js developer who has never touched Nuxt has probably worked on simple SPAs or internal admin interfaces. That is not a flaw if your need is limited to that. But if you are building a product with SEO requirements, indexed public pages or dynamic content, using Nuxt 3 becomes unavoidable. Check whether the candidate knows the difference between rendering modes (universal, client-only, hybrid), whether they have already configured useFetch or useAsyncData for server-side data fetching, and whether they understand the middleware and layout system specific to Nuxt. A developer who masters Nuxt 3 has dealt with deployment, caching and hydration challenges. These are skills that cannot be faked in an interview.
1.3: The Peripheral Ecosystem That Reveals Maturity
Vue.js does not live alone. An operational developer in 2025 must know Pinia (the state manager that replaces Vuex), Vue Router 4, Vite as a bundler (and no longer Webpack via Vue CLI), and ideally a testing framework such as Vitest or Vue Test Utils. Knowledge of TypeScript with Vue 3 is another marker. TypeScript support in the Composition API is native and powerful, but many Vue developers continue to code in plain JavaScript out of habit. If your codebase is typed, a candidate who does not know how to type a defineProps or a defineEmits will produce fragile components. On the UI side, ask which design system they have used: Vuetify, Quasar, PrimeVue, Headless UI. The answer itself does not matter — what matters is the ability to explain why one choice over another. A developer who chooses their tools with intention is a developer who structures. A developer who takes whatever comes along is a developer who piles things up.
2 – Vue.js Technical Tests: What Works, What Filters Nothing
The technical test is the only moment of truth before integration. Poorly calibrated, it lets through profiles that cannot deliver. Too theoretical, it eliminates effective developers. Here is how to build a test that measures what truly matters on your projects.
2.1: The Asynchronous Test Calibrated to Your Stack
A good Vue.js technical test lasts between two and four hours, no more. It reproduces a real case from your project, not a disconnected algorithmic exercise. Concrete example: you send a mini Nuxt 3 project with three existing components, a partially implemented Pinia store and a mock API. The candidate must add a feature (filtering, pagination, form with validation), fix a reactivity bug intentionally introduced, and write a unit test on the composable they created. This format reveals five things in a single exercise: the ability to read existing code (not just start from an empty file), mastery of Vue reactivity, understanding of state management, the quality of the code produced (naming, structure, decomposition), and testing discipline. Les protocoles qui séparent le code fiable du code jetable detail how to structure this evaluation so that it is reproducible from one candidate to the next.
2.2: Live Coding to Test Real-Time Thinking
The asynchronous test shows what the developer produces when they have time to research. Live coding shows how they think under moderate pressure. No need for unnecessary stress. The exercise lasts thirty to forty-five minutes, via video call with screen sharing. You present a simple problem but with a subtle twist: a component that re-renders unnecessarily (a classic poorly scoped watchEffect issue), a multi-step form to implement with reactive validation, or the migration of an Options API component to Composition API. What you observe: does the candidate use the documentation? Good — that is a sign of maturity, not weakness. Do they ask clarifying questions before coding? That is the expected behavior of a developer who works remotely. Do they code cleanly from the first attempt or pile on patches? Live coding eliminates profiles who had someone else complete their asynchronous test. It also eliminates those who copied AI-generated code without understanding it.
2.3: The Architecture Interview — The Test Nobody Does That Changes Everything
After the code, the architecture. You present your project (or a similar fictional project) to the candidate and ask how they would structure it. How many components, what decomposition, where to put the business logic, how to handle authentication, how to organize API calls. A junior developer will describe a flat structure with catch-all components. An intermediate developer will propose a feature-based breakdown with shared composables. A senior developer will ask questions about performance constraints, data volume and edge cases before drawing anything at all. If your stack combines Vue.js on the front end and Laravel on the back end (a very common pairing), ask how they handle communication between the two: REST API, Inertia.js or another approach. Un article dédié couvre les critères spécifiques au profil développeur Vue Laravel. The architecture interview is the moment where you detect whether the candidate will contribute to your codebase or degrade it.
3 – Integrating a Remote Vue.js Developer Without Losing Three Weeks to Onboarding
Hiring the right profile is not enough. A competent Vue.js developer who is poorly integrated will produce code disconnected from your business reality, use conventions different from yours and create invisible technical debt. Integration is the phase that most companies rush through.
3.1: Day One — Full Access and First Commit
A dedicated remote developer must have on day 1: access to your Git repository, to your project management tool (Jira, Linear, Notion), to your communication channel (Slack, Teams), to your staging environment and to the existing documentation. Not on day 3, not "when the admin has time". Day 1. The goal of the first day is not to deliver a feature. It is to clone the repo, run the project locally, understand the folder structure, read the README (if it exists), and push a first commit — even a cosmetic one. This first commit validates that the entire chain works: Git access, CI pipeline, push rights on the development branch. At Taram, every developer works on a dedicated infrastructure (Ryzen 7, fiber + 5G backup) that eliminates machine performance issues. La continuité d'un développeur dédié à temps plein change la dynamique de livraison from this very first week.
3.2: Code Conventions, Linter and Mandatory Review
Before your remote Vue.js developer writes their first line of business logic, they must know your conventions. Component structure (script setup first or template first), naming (PascalCase for components, camelCase for composables), folder organization (by feature, by type, hybrid), ESLint and Prettier rules configured in the project. If these conventions do not yet exist, now is the time to establish them. An .eslintrc and a .prettierrc configured with the official Vue plugins (eslint-plugin-vue) take thirty minutes to set up and prevent months of pointless style debates. Every pull request goes through a code review. No exceptions. Even for a senior developer. Remote code review is not a surveillance mechanism: it is the mechanism that aligns the new developer with your codebase. Three reviewed PRs with precise comments produce more alignment than ten onboarding meetings.
3.3: Progressive Ramp-Up and Structured Feedback
Week 1: bug fix tickets and small UI improvements. The developer reads more code than they write. They discover your patterns, your shared components, your historical quirks (every codebase has them). Week 2: a medium-sized feature, with a clear scope and an existing design system to respect. Week 3: a complete feature, from specification to staging deployment. This rhythm is not arbitrary. It allows the developer to understand the business context before making architectural decisions. A weekly fifteen-minute check-in is enough to align priorities and surface blockers. If your roadmap accumule du retard, the temptation is to load the developer up from day 1. Resist it. A developer who starts fast but without context produces code that slows everyone down two months later. A developer who ramps up progressively delivers autonomously from month 2 onward, then accelerates. The Taram model (1 developer = 1 client, never shared) guarantees this ramp-up without interruption or divided attention across another project.
Your Next Vue.js Developer May Already Be Working — Just Not for You
The Vue.js profile you are looking for exists. They master the Composition API, know how to structure a Nuxt 3 project, write clean composables and understand your back-end stack. They will not respond to your job posting on Welcome to the Jungle because they are already employed or because they are working from Antananarivo for a client who understood that geography has nothing to do with competence. Every week without this developer is a feature that does not ship, technical debt that accumulates and a competitor that delivers before you. La pénurie ne se résoudra pas toute seule. You can wait for the French market to ease up (it will not ease up) or integrate a dedicated, tested, operational Vue.js developer into your team within two weeks.
