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Vue.js 2.x by Example

By : Mike Street
Book Image

Vue.js 2.x by Example

By: Mike Street

Overview of this book

Vue.js is a frontend web framework which makes it easy to do just about anything, from displaying data up to creating full-blown web apps, and has become a leading tool for web developers. This book puts Vue.js into a real-world context, guiding you through example projects that helps you build Vue.js applications from scratch. With this book, you will learn how to use Vue.js by creating three Single Page web applications. Throughout this book, we will cover the usage of Vue, for building web interfaces, Vuex, an official Vue plugin which makes caching and storing data easier, and Vue-router, a plugin for creating routes and URLs for your application. Starting with a JSON dataset, the first part of the book covers Vue objects and how to utilize each one. This will be covered by exploring different ways of displaying data from a JSON dataset. We will then move on to manipulating the data with filters and search and creating dynamic values. Next, you will see how easy it is to integrate remote data into an application by learning how to use the Dropbox API to display your Dropbox contents in an application In the final section, you will see how to build a product catalog and dynamic shopping cart using the Vue-router, giving you the building blocks of an e-commerce store.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Building the Order process and ListProducts component

For the three steps of the Checkout, we are going to be utilizing the same component in all three: the ListProducts component. In the OrderCheckout, and OrderConfirmation components, it will be in a fixed, uneditable state, whereas when it is in the OrderBasket component, the user needs to be able to update quantities and remove items if desired.

As we're going to be working at the Checkout, we need products to exist in the basket array. To save us having to find products and add them to the basket every time we refresh the app, we can ensure there are some products in the basket array by hardcoding an array in the store.

To achieve this, navigate to a few products and add them to your basket. Ensure there is a good selection of products and quantities for testing. Next, open your JavaScript console in the browser and...