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Vue.js: Understanding its Tools and Ecosystem

By : Dave Berning
Book Image

Vue.js: Understanding its Tools and Ecosystem

By: Dave Berning

Overview of this book

Vue.js is one of the top three “go-to” JavaScript frameworks and is used by organizations such as Nintendo, NASA, and Expedia. This book is primarily focused on the ecosystem of Vue.js and its development tools. Understanding the basics of the technology behind the Vue.js ecosystem will improve your skills and make you a better problem solver. The book begins with a brief overview of Vue.js. You’ll learn to work your way through the Vue command line interface CLI 3, and use the Vue Router library to navigate between the different views of your application. As you advance through the topics, you’ll explore the use of DevTools to improve the quality of your applications and how to implement server-side rendering in your application through the Nuxt.js framework. Toward the end of the book, you’ll read about the future of Vue.js and its growing popularity. After reading this book, you’ll be able to create industry-grade applications using Vue.js and its tools.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Using Pre-Processors

One of the main advantages that Vue.js has over its competitors is the ease of installing and using CSS pre-processors like SASS/SCSS, LESS, Stylus or HTML pre-processors like Pug (Jade). This ease of use is thanks to Vue Loader.

In other frameworks, there’s generally a lot more setup and concentration involved. I find it extremely useful and easy to import packages and define the preprocessor in a component. Since pre-processors are defined via an attribute in each component, you could have some components with a pre-processor or without one. You can even have one component use SCSS and another use LESS. It’s not recommended to have multiple preprocessors in a single component (or in an app for that matter), but it’s nice to have the option.