Hello galaxy!

I am Razvan Stoenescu, creator and development coordinator of the Quasar Framework, an open-source turnkey system for developing websites and apps. Check it out: https://quasar-framework.org

Along with my team (Dan Popescu and Daniel Thompson) and our staff of volunteers, we are now entering the final preparations for the Quasar Framework 1.0 launch in the Winter of 2018/2019.

Details

The Quasar Framework is a node.js based collection of tools with a multitude of uses and applications:

developing and publishing responsive and interactive websites
building and optimising progressive web-apps
creating native apps for Linux, MacOS and Windows with Electron, as well as mobile apps for Android and iOS with Cordova

The Quasar Framework does all of this with one code-base employing tricks of the trade, best-practices and, for all intents and purposes, really gives teams super-powers in development speed and agility.

With over 7000 stars on Github,the Quasar Framework is one of the most widely adopted “all-on-one” tools in the Vue ecosystem. It includes over 130 components in pixel-perfect material-design specification and has dozens of life-saving plugins for advanced usage.

We are now working night and day to get it ready for professional adoption in mission-critical environments by writing tests for each and every component and plugin, and enhancing its accessibility with a11y and i18n.

If you want to see how easy it is, check out this article by @nothingismagick

If you are a developer, and have never heard about Quasar, here are a couple of links to bring you up to speed:

COMPONENTS: https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar
CLI: https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar-cli
THE DOCS: https://quasar-framework.org/
DISCORD: http://chat.quasar-framework.org/
FORUM: https://forum.quasar-framework.org/
MEDIUM: https://medium.com/quasar-framework
BUSY: https://busy.org/@quasarframework

We need your support

We have a lot of stuff on our plate, but here is a brief list of the most important things we have in the pipeline, for which we need financial and community support:

Redesign of all Art Assets
Polish all of Quasar’s UI components
Relaunch of Website and Docs
Translation of Website and Docs
New website for community sharing of snippets
Creation of @quasar npm organization
Beginning of Video Series on D-Tube
Marketing Collateral (like stickers and tshirts) and a Webshop
100% code-coverage of all Components and Plugins
Integration of accessibility best-practices
Ad campaign about the 1.0 launch

Why are we asking for help now?

We are a very small team and are struggling to make ends meet, even though we regularly work double-shifts. If we toiled at jobs like most “normal” developers (sorry for you all out there), we would have more free time and would definitely be earning more money.

We must expand the team by onboarding talented developers who share our vision. Relying on our awesome volunteers is not sustainable, as real life often gets in the way. We want to find the right people to take ownership of specific parts of the project, and be able to offer adequate compensation. Hopefully, the brilliant devs we seek will show us their mad skills by participating in @utopian-io TASKS, the bounties for which require STEEM.

Developers working in the public sector and interested in using the Quasar Framework require a fully tested, standards-compliant and failure-resistant build infrastructure. Knowing for a fact that our releases will not break in edge cases is something that can only be managed by continuous integration - integration we have to build. Enabling and documenting the optional (and painless) integration of dev-tools in like commitlint, vue-skip-to and eslint-plugin-vue-a11y will be critical factors in matching even the most demanding client requirements.

To grow our community of contributions and users, we must invest in marketing to raise awareness. While other frameworks either have corporate backing or offer premium services, our goal is to focus on community collaboration to maximise value delivered rather than profits. However, since marketing and advertising do require a budget, we turn to you for support.

How the funds will be used

A portion of the funds collected in this crowdfunding campaign will help support our team pay the bills as they dedicate most (if not all) of their waking hours to perfecting the Quasar Framework. Some of the funds will be reserved for the bounties on @utopian-io TASKS to reward the contributors who will get all the base unit tests written and the automated e2e testing rigs built.

More details about this will be revealed in upcoming updates, but we need the STEEM Power to execute our plans effectively. Each and every contribution to the Fundition campaign puts us in a better position to give back to open-source developers (and strengthens Utopian to boot).

How you can help

Every vote matters! Every donation helps! Every star counts!

Every time you say “Quasar Framework” another 4801 stars are born in our universe.

Please reblog, tweet and share - be a shining star in our galaxy of supporters!

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