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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)

Adding the ability to download files

Now that our users can navigate through the folder structure, we need to add the ability to download the files. Unfortunately, this isn't as simple as accessing a link attribute on the file. To get the download link, we have to query the Dropbox API for each file.

We will query the API on the creation of the file component, this will asynchronously get the download link and show it once available. Before we can do this, we need to make the Dropbox instance available to the file component.

Add a new attribute to the file component in the view, and pass the Dropbox method through as the value:

      <file :d="dropbox()" :f="entry"></file>

Add the d variable to the props object of your component accepting an Object:

    props: {
f: Object,
d: Object
},

We are now going to add a data attribute of...