Lessons From Two Years of Building Vue 3 + TypeScript Applications for the Adult Content Industry

Let’s be honest: working in Adult Content isn't the most mainstream path for a frontend developer. But when you're serving millions of users on a daily basis, performance, reliability, and scalability become non-negotiable—no matter the industry.

Over the last two years, I worked as a Vue 3 + TypeScript developer building a large-scale web application in the adult entertainment industry for the U.S. market. Here's what I learned, what I wish I'd known earlier, and what I now bring into every project I touch.

1. Performance is not a bonus. It's a baseline.

When your traffic spikes during peak hours, the last thing you want is a bloated frontend. With Vue 3’s Composition API and TypeScript's strictness, I was able to:

• Build lean components that re-render smartly

• Keep state predictable using Pinia instead of Vuex

• Rely on static typing to prevent bugs in complex flows

• Performance issues in adult content apps = users bounce in seconds.

2. TypeScript gives you superpowers — if you embrace it fully.

At first, I treated TypeScript as a "nice-to-have." Big mistake.

Once I committed to strict types, everything changed:

• Fewer runtime errors

• Better IDE autocomplete

• Easier refactors when business logic evolved Type safety is not overhead. It’s insurance.

3. SSR is worth the extra effort (yes, even for adult content)

Google doesn’t care what your content is. If your site doesn’t render fast or crawl well — you lose.
Using Nuxt 3 for SSR:

• Improved SEO significantly

• Reduced time-to-first-paint for mobile users

• Enabled better caching strategies SSR is not just for blogs or SaaS. It’s for every product that needs to be found.

4. Architecture matters. It saves your sanity later.

We started with a flat file structure. Big mistake. When the team scaled, everything broke.
What worked:

• Modular folder structure by domain

• Clear separation of UI components vs. business logic

• Global types & interfaces folder Vue 3 with Composition API lets you think in modules. Use that.

5. You can build seriously clean code in a not-so-serious industry.

Adult content aside, the standards were sky-high.

• Unit testing with Vitest

• E2E flows with Cypress

• Code reviews with strict rules

• CI/CD pipelines for every push Clean code has no shame. And neither should the people writing it.

Final Thought

I don’t regret a single line of code I wrote for that project. It taught me how to work with pressure, ship to real users, handle complex logic, and keep my codebase scalable.

No matter the industry — good engineering is good engineering.

And Vue 3 + TypeScript? They're the best tools I've ever used to build fast, elegant, real-world applications.

Thanks for reading! I'm Oleksii — a frontend developer who loves clean code, TypeScript, and building things that scale. Feel free to connect with me here or on LinkedIn.