[timdorr]

Most of the discussion behind this decision, including feedback directly from Evan You (author of Vue), is here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180

It's pretty interesting to read through.

[skybrian]

This discussion is from early 2020 and the decision seems to have been mostly made by then, but they’re announcing it now.

I guess everyone’s been busy, what with a pandemic and all. :)

[katabasis]

Various teams have been using Vue on a more experimental basis over the last year. The new Media Search tool on Commons is Vue.js-based, for example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch

But this announcement makes things more official.