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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)

Passing data to your component – props

Having the balance as a component is great, but not very good if the balance is fixed. Components really come into their own when you add the ability to pass in arguments and properties via HTML attributes. In the Vue world, these are called props. Props can be either static or variable. In order for your component to expect these properties, you need to create an array on the component by using the props property.

An example of this would be if we wanted to make a heading component:

      Vue.component('heading', {
template: '<h1>{{ text }}</h1>',

props: ['text']
});

The component would then be used in the view like so:

      <heading text="Hello!"></heading>

With props, we don't need to define the text variable in the data object, as defining...