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Vue.js 2.x by Example

By : Mike Street
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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)

Caching the Current Folder Structure Using Vuex

In this chapter, we are going to introduce an official Vue plugin called Vuex. Vuex is a state management pattern and library that allows you to have a centralized store for all your Vue components, irrelevant of whether they are child components or a Vue instance. It gives us a centralized, simple way of keeping our data in sync across the whole app.

This chapter is going to cover:

  • Getting started with Vuex
  • Storing and retrieving data from the Vuex store
  • Integrating Vuex with our Dropbox app
  • Caching the current Dropbox folder contents and loading data from the store if required

Instead of requiring custom events and the $emit functions on every component, and trying to keep components and child components up to date, every part of your Vue app can update the central store, and others can react and update their data and state based...