PrimeVue is a UI component library for VueJS featuring over 80 components, design agnostic theming, templates, CSS utilities, ready to use UI blocks and more. In this article, we'll highlight 10 important aspects of PrimeVue.

Design Agnostic Theming

Usually UI libraries depend on a certain styling such as material, bootstrap or another css library which is limiting in terms of styling. PrimeVue on the other hand is design agnostic thanks to the flexible theming architecture. It has built-in themes for Material, Bootstrap, FluentUI, PrimeOne themes that your users can switch at runtime to customize how they want to use your app. Without PrimeVue for example, switching from material to bootstrap requires rewriting your entire app with another UI library.

Theme Designer is a powerful tool to create your own theme with the visual and the code editor. If you have a custom style guide, theme designer is the tool you need to implement it.

UI Components

PrimeVue provides over 80 components to tackle various use cases. The UI suite, covers many of the requirements you'd have whether it is a simpler app or a data heavy app using the wide range of form components in addition to the powerful DataTable.

Quick Reaction Time

PrimeVue team constantly monitors the changes in Vue library and apply updates accordingly. It is the first UI library to support Vue 3 back in October 2020 and offers premium support for Vue 3 since then. After a breaking change in Vue 3, a compatible PrimeVue version is released in a short matter of time.

PrimeFlex CSS Utilities

CSS utility libraries where you define the styling within the html markup is a popular choice these days, PrimeVue has its own library called PrimeFlex that offers solutions to common problems including a Grid System, Flexbox, Color System, positioning, sizing, spacing and many others.

PrimeBlocks

PrimeBlocks is a new project from PrimeTek featuring copy-paste ready, easy-to-use building UI blocks based on PrimeFlex CSS utility library. A UI block is a set of html elements styled with the PrimeFlex CSS utility library. A block can also contain PrimeVue components in addition to regular elements. The blocks are designed to be used easily by simply moving the block code to your own application. This is achieved by defining the styling in the markup without using a custom css declaration. In cases where a block requires interactivity such as toggling the visibility of a menu or a sidebar, v-styleclass directive of PrimeVue manages the events and animations. Blocks are meant to be used together to build landing pages, dashboards or any other content you can imagine.

Templates

Based on VueCLI, PrimeVue offers spectacular admin templates based on different designs. These templates have a little footprint as they only depend on PrimeVue rather than combining bunch of libraries as most templates do.

PrimeLand

PrimeVue belongs to a family of UI libraries that include the award winning (Duke's Choice 2016 from Oracle) PrimeFaces, PrimeNG and PrimeReact. It is developed by PrimeTek whose only focus is developing open source UI solutions backed by 10+ years of experience. Prime libraries at NPM has passed 50 million downloads as of mid 2021 and utilized all around the world by a huge community. Visit the Discord or Forum for more information.

PrimeIcons

PrimeVue has its own icon library named PrimeIcons that provides over 100 professional commonly used icons. Each version brings new icons that are requested by the community.

PRO Support

PRO Support is an optional service mainly designed for enterprise companies. PrimeVue PRO is a term based commercial support service. With the exclusive services of Pro account, you no longer need to post your questions in the community forum and your issues to community issue tracker. With PrimeVue PRO, it's easy to support, tune and add features to PrimeVue as if it were an in-house framework. You may not need it but always good to have an option to get premium support.

Complete UI Solution

To summarize, goal of PrimeVue is to be the complete UI solution so that you don't need to look elsewhere. To achieve this, numerous add-ons are provided.

• 80+ UI Components
• PrimeIcons for Icons
• PrimeFlex for CSS Utilities
• PrimeBlocks for UI blocks
• Templates for starter kits