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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)

Creating Vue components

Now we're confident our code is cleaner, we can move on to making Vue components for the various parts of our app. Put aside your code for now and open a new document while you get to grips with components.

Vue components are extremely powerful and a great addition to any Vue app. They allow you to make packages of reusable code that include their own data, methods, and computed values.

For our app, we have the opportunity to create two components: one for each person and one for the filtering section of our app. I would encourage you to always look at breaking your app into components where possible—this helps group your code into related functions.

Components look like mini Vue instances as each one has its own data, methods, and computed objects—along with some component-specific options that we will cover shortly. Components are also...