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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

Vue Router is a great library to navigate between the different views or “pages” of your application. All of your routes live inside one router.js file that gets injected as a dependency into your Vue Instance. As stated above, there are different types of routes that you can have including named routes, dynamic routes, redirects, alias, and stringed routes.

Unlike its competitors, Vue Router is a first party proprietary router created by the Vue.js Core Team. Since it’s the first party router for Vue.js, Vue Router is guaranteed to work with the latest versions of the core Vue.js library. With React, for instance, the unofficial “official” recommendation is React Router 4, which could change at any time and has a higher chance of introducing breaking changes to your application. With that being said, you do not need to use Vue Router in your application. You can use a third party Vue.js router. However, it is not recommended.

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