Hire Vue.js Developers

The Composition API is the core of modern Vue. A strong developer writes small, focused composables rather than copying logic between components, understands the difference between ref and reactive and the pitfalls of destructuring reactive objects, and uses computed and watch deliberately rather than watching everything. Fluency with script setup, typed defineProps and defineEmits, and provide and inject for cross-cutting concerns is a good sign.

Pinia is now the standard store. Look for developers who keep stores small and domain-focused, avoid putting server data in a store when a fetching composable would do, and know how to keep reactivity when reading from a store. For Nuxt, ask how they decide between server rendering, static generation and client-only pages, how data fetching works on the server and client, and how they handle hydration mismatches - the most common Nuxt bug in production.

Migration is rarely a single switch. Typical work includes replacing Vuex with Pinia, swapping filters and event-bus patterns for composables, updating or replacing component libraries that never shipped a Vue 3 version, moving the build from Webpack or Vue CLI to Vite, and moving from Nuxt 2 to the current Nuxt if the app is server-rendered.

The safest path is incremental: upgrade the build and test tooling first, add tests around the riskiest screens, then migrate module by module, with the migration build or compatibility flags used where they help. A developer who has done this before will ask early about third-party plugins and mixins, because those are usually what stretch a migration out.

The first weeks usually go on understanding the codebase, fixing bugs and adding Vitest coverage around code that is about to change. For a team on Vue 2, this period often doubles as a migration audit that lists blockers and dependencies.

After that the developer typically owns features end to end, plus one improvement that pays back across the app - extracting shared composables, introducing TypeScript to a key module, moving a Vuex module to Pinia, or improving Nuxt page performance and SEO.

A short practical exercise beats trivia: give the candidate an Options API component with a reactivity bug and ask them to fix it, convert it to the Composition API and add a Vitest test. Follow up with a design question - how they would structure stores and composables for a mid-sized admin panel, or how they would plan a Vue 2 migration for your app.

With PixoBots you interview the developer yourself before they start, and an NDA is signed before kickoff so you can share real code during the evaluation.

AI tools handle much of the mechanical Vue work: drafting single-file components from a design, converting Options API components to script setup, translating Vuex modules into Pinia stores, generating TypeScript types for props and API responses, and writing a first pass of Vitest and Cypress tests.

The developer reviews and runs every change, and keeps the decisions that need judgement - how state is split between stores and composables, whether a converted component kept its reactivity, how pages render in Nuxt, and whether the UI matches the design down to the pixel. You own the resulting code and IP.