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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

Transitions and animations in CSS


To understand how Vue.js deals with transitions and animations, we will first need to have a quick refresher on how they work in CSS. We will focus on the bare basics, with the goal of revisiting the principles that govern transitions and animations. We will also look at their differences. The goal is to be able to understand better how Vue helps, rather than dive deep into the nuances of transitions and animations. 

How CSS transitions work

When we hover over an element, we put that element in a hover state. When the user triggers a hover state through their interaction with our web page, we might want to emphasize that this change of state has occurred.

To emphasize that change of state, we could, for example, change the CSS background-color property on that element when the user hovers over it.

This is where CSS transitions come in. When we write code for CSS transitions, we instruct the browser on how it will display changes made to that specific CSS property...