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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

Using Vue-CLI


In order to start using Vue-cli, we need to have Node.js set up on our machine, and we also need to have a command-line app on our operating system of choice.

For example, my preferred tools are Windows 10 and Git bash for Windows.

Note

There are many different operating systems and command-line apps that you could potentially be using. If you run into problems during the installation of any of the tools mentioned in this section, it might be worthwhile to have a look at this in-depth guide on installing Node.js on your operating system:https://www.packtpub.com/mapt/book/web_development/9781788626859/2

Installing Git bash

You first need to visit https://git-scm.com/downloads, which lets you choose between macOS X, Windows, and Linux/Unix installations. After clicking on the Windows download, you can proceed with the installation steps for Git bash. Just following the default preset options during the installation should be fine.

Installing nvm

To download the Node version manager...