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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 VuePress for Documentation

VuePress comes with more features out of the box for documentation. With little to no configuration. As you probably could tell if you installed VuePress for the previous example that VuePress comes with a default theme. Let’s explore some of the out-of-the-box features that VuePress has to offer.

First, create a new project.

$ mkdir vue-documentation
$ cd vue-documentation
$ touch README.md # create file

# Open in VS Code
code .

# Open in Atom
atom .

Creating a Title and Navigation

After installation, VuePress is pretty bare. With a blank header and an off-canvas navigation for mobile devices. Let’s fill some things in the VuePress way.

Create a new directory and file .vuepress and config.js respectively.

$ mkdir .vuepress
$ cd .vuepress
$ touch config.js

Inside of config.js, export a Webpack module and add a title:

.vuepress/config.js

module.exports = {
  title: 'VuePress Test Site',
};

You should see the title in your...