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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)

Nested routes

Nested routes differ from sub-routes as they exist within a component already matching the beginning part of a route. This allows you to show different content within an existing view.

A good example of this would be Twitter. If you visit a Twitter user's profile page, you are able to view who they are following, who follows them, and what lists they've created. If you observe the URL while you navigate through the pages, you will notice a recurring pattern: the username followed by the different page. The difference between nested routes and sub-routes is that nested routes allow you to keep components the same throughout the different sub-pages (for example, the header and sidebar).

The advantages of this are that the user can bookmark and share the link, it makes the page more accessible, and is good for SEO reasons. None of these advantages could be...