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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

Vuex is a simple approach to state management. With Vuex, you have a Vuex store that contains everything that you need for your application’s state including: state, actions, mutations, getters, and setters. Your state is a single source of truth or a single data source that is shared across all components and views of your single page application. The idea behind state management is that everything in state needs to be tracked and explicitly changed; it’s fairly difficult to unintentionally change your application’s state.

Vuex comes pre-packaged with several helper functions including mapState and mapActions that you can use to simplify your code and make it easier to read and more maintainable down the road. Vuex is created and maintained by the Vue.js core team. The documentation for Vuex has some of the best documentation for a state management library. It’s highly encouraged to review the documentation and frequently refer to it because it...