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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

Binding the inputs to local state

The purpose of forms in a web application is to capture some user input and be able to do something with it. In our example, we still don't have any way to access the user's input with JavaScript for our Vuetiful plans—so, let's start with that.

Please note that you do not necessarily have to wrap up your form's data inside a secondary object, but, I have found it to be cleaner—especially when you start adding other data properties to your component, which may not necessarily be related to your form.

Create a new data property on the instance of your App.vue file. Inside of it, we're going to declare a form object, which will, in turn, hold a property for each one of our inputs:

<script>
export default {
name: 'app',
data() {
return {
form: {
firstName: &apos...