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Vue.js Quick Start Guide

By : Ajdin Imsirovic
Book Image

Vue.js Quick Start Guide

By: Ajdin Imsirovic

Overview of this book

Vue.js is the latest trending frontend framework. Simplicity, reactivity, and ?exibility are some of the key benefits that Vue offers to developers. This book will help you learn everything you need to know to build stunning reactive web apps with Vue.js 2 quickly and easily. This book will take you through the Vue 2 framework. You will start by learning the different Vue installation options: CDN, NPM, and Vue CLI. Then we will look at the core concepts of Vue: templates and components – ways to modularize Vue code. You will learn how to utilize directives, which are Vue-specific HTML attributes with additional features. Also, you will see how Vue uses a streamlined approach to development, with reusable methods, computed properties, and watchers, and how it controls state with the help of its data option. You will learn about the concepts of reactive programming in Vue, and how to understand communication between parent and child components. We will take a look at props and slots, working with CSS, filters, and mixins. We will also look at ways to add transitions and animations to Vue apps. Then you will extend Vue by building custom directives and your own plugins. Finally, you will learn about Vuex – a Vue plugin that allows us to centralize state, and also introduce Nuxt, which is a framework that builds on top of Vue and solves some issues of single-page applications. After learning about these components, you will be ready to build your own reactive web apps with Vue.js 2.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding components, templates, and props


To begin, let's look at how to make a component in Vue. First, we specify the component, like this:

Vue.component('custom-article', {
  template: `
    <article>
      Our own custom article component!<span></span>
    </article>`
})
new Vue({
    el: '#app'
})

A component is a block of code that we give a custom name. This custom name can be anything we come up with, and it's a single label for that entire block of code in the form of a custom HTML tag. In the previous example, we grouped the article and span tags and gave that custom tag the name of custom-article

Note

Components are named using kebab-case.

The code for this component is available as a Codepen at https://codepen.io/AjdinImsirovic/pen/xzpOaJ.

Now, to create an instance of our component, we simply use our <custom-article> opening and closing tags in our HTML, like this:

<main id="app">
    <custom-article></custom-article>
</main...