Is vue-resource still maintained?
No — vue-resource stopped being maintained around November 2016. vue-resource's own maintainers named axios as the successor.
- Status
- No longer maintained
- Last maintained
- November 2016
- Use instead
axios— on npm- Succession
- Successor named by the maintainers
- Drop-in
- no — expect code changes
- Confidence
- high
What should I use instead of vue-resource?
vue-resource's own maintainers named axios as the successor. axios is not a drop-in replacement, so expect to change call sites.
How to migrate from vue-resource to axios
this.$http.get(url) becomes axios.get(url), and the response body moves from response.body to response.data. Register axios yourself rather than relying on a Vue plugin.
Why vue-resource is on this list
Evan You announced on the official Vue blog in November 2016 that vue-resource was being retired from official recommendation status, suggesting Axios as the default instead. The last release, 1.5.3, shipped in June 2021, the repository was archived in December 2023, and the library targets Vue 2 rather than Vue 3.
The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.
vue-resource alternatives
Beyond the primary recommendation, these are credible for vue-resource's use case:
ofetch— view on npm
Check your own project for vue-resource
npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintainedRun that in the directory holding your lockfile. If vue-resource is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.
Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.
Evidence
Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:
- Retiring vue-resource, official Vue blog (Evan You, 3 Nov 2016)medium.com
- Archived pagekit/vue-resource repositorygithub.com
Packages related to vue-resource
- jscsSuccessor named by the maintainers: eslint · unmaintained since April 2016
- requestReplacement project: undici · unmaintained since February 2020
- request-promiseReplacement project: got · unmaintained since July 2020
- request-promise-anyReplacement project: got · unmaintained since July 2020
- request-promise-nativeReplacement project: got · unmaintained since July 2020
See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.