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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

Exploring the starter kit

After you clone or download the starter repository, you will find yourself with a Vue CLI 3 project. The first thing to do is to take a look at what we are going to be working with! The repository contains a very simple form with some input fields and a select box. You can find the structure for the form in App.vue. As you can see, we are using two different custom components, BaseInput and BaseSelect. Both of these can be found inside the src/components folder. They both wrap an input and select tag, respectively, and expose some properties that we can use to inject the necessary data into each of them, such as labels and options.

I have taken the liberty of already adding Axios to the project dependencies; you can check out package.json to corroborate. Bootstrap's CSS file for some base classes has been imported inside main.js.

Now that we have...