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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.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Copyright and Credits
Building Forms with Vue.js
Dedication
Dedication
About Packt
About Packt
Why subscribe?
Foreword
Foreword
Contributors
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewers
Packt is searching for authors like you
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Get in touch
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1
Setting up the Demo Project
Setting up the Demo Project
Technical requirements
Installing Vue CLI onto our computer
Creating our new project
A quick look at the project structure
Summary
2
A Form in its Simplest Form
A Form in its Simplest Form
Technical requirements
Getting started using Bootstrap
Actually writing some code
Binding the inputs to local state
Submitting the form's data
Bringing in Axios
Summary
3
Creating Reusable Form Components
Creating Reusable Form Components
Technical requirements
Breaking down the form into components
Understanding v-model in custom components
Implementing a custom input component
One more time – with dropdowns!
Summary
4
Input Masks with v-mask
Input Masks with v-mask
Technical requirements
Installing the v-mask library
Exploring the v-mask directive
Enhancing our custom inputs
Summary
5
Input Validation with Vuelidate
Input Validation with Vuelidate
Technical requirements
Installing dependencies
Creating validation rules
Moving validation into our custom inputs
Adding the final touches
Summary
6
Moving to a Global State with Vuex
Moving to a Global State with Vuex
Technical requirements
Adding Vuex to our project
Creating the mock API endpoint
Creating the global state
Adding some mutations to our store
Lights, Vue, actions!
Vuelidate and Vuex
Summary 
7
Creating Schema-Driven Forms
Creating Schema-Driven Forms
Technical requirements
Exploring the starter kit
Preparing the schema
Dynamically binding the user's data
Creating a mock API
Loading the new API into the app
Translating the API into a working schema
Summary
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Bringing in Axios

The next step in our form is to actually have the form send the user's data to our servers. For the sake of example, the data is not going to be actually stored anywhere, but we will look at the steps of creating the POST call that most forms will use for transferring the data to an API or server endpoint.

Axios is a fantastic and popular library for sending and receiving data from servers. I personally recommend it as a go-to whenever you need to make any HTTP calls from your Vue apps. You can find the official GitHub page here: github.com/axios/axios.

Follow the next set of steps to get Axios ready on your project:

  1. Fire up your Terminal and run the following command:
> npm install axios
  1. We are going to need an API endpoint to make our calls to. Since we don't have any servers at hand—and to keep things really simple—we are...
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