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Building Forms with Vue.js

By : Marina Mosti
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Building Forms with Vue.js

By: Marina Mosti

Overview of this book

Almost every web application and site out there handles user input in one way or another, from registration forms and log-in handling to registration and landing pages. Building Forms with Vue.js follows a step-by-step approach to help you create an efficient user interface (UI) and seamless user experience (UX) by building quick and easy-to-use forms. You’ll get off to a steady start by setting up the demo project. Next, you’ll get to grips with component composition from creating reusable form components through to implementing the custom input components. To further help you develop a convenient user input experience, the book will show you how to enhance custom inputs with v-mask. As you progress, you’ll get up to speed with using Vuelidate and Vuex to effectively integrate your forms. You’ll learn how to create forms that use global state, reactive instant user input validation and input masking, along with ensuring that they are completely schema-driven and connected to your application’s API. Every chapter builds on the concepts learned in the previous chapter, while also allowing you to skip ahead to the topics you’re most interested in. By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to transform even the simplest form into a crafted user and developer experience with Vue.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword

Adding Vuex to our project

Let's start by adding Vuex to our project. Follow these steps:

  1. Open up the Terminal and run the following command to get Vuex added to the project as a dependency:
> npm install vuex
  1. Now that we have the library installed, we need to add it as a plugin to our app. Go to main.js, import it and add it with the following lines of code. You can place them after the Vue and App import statements:
import Vuex from 'vuex';
Vue.use(Vuex);
const store = new Vuex.store({
// Our global store
});

The store variable will hold all of our global states, including our actions and mutations as well. We'll discuss those in more detail soon. For store to be available to the whole app, we are missing one last step. We need to inject the store variable into our Vue instance.

  1. Inside main.js still, go to the configuration options for the new Vue instance...