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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)

Conclusion

If there is any indicator of the maturity rate of Vue.js as a whole, it’s Vue CLI 3. As stated before, the new command line interface tool is a huge upgrade from its predecessor, Vue CLI 2. The CLI is also another tool that is developed and maintained by Evan You and the Vue.js Core Team, so it gets updated regularly in order to keep up with developer’s needs and the Vue.js library itself.

This latest updated to the CLI is huge with many welcome additions. In the past, if you needed to modify Webpack, you needed to commit to updating the config files yourself via “ejecting”. However, with Vue CLI 3, the configurations are hidden but can also be expanded upon with a vue.config.js file.

This means you will not have access to the original Webpack configuration. In the past, configurations in Vue CLI 2 were exposed for developer’s to see, which could intimidate developer’s regardless of skill level. Configurations were also very difficult...