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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

Installing the v-mask library

Let's get started with the installation of the v-mask library. In order for our project to use what it has to offer, we first need to add it to our project dependencies. Follow these steps in order to do this:

  1. Open up your Terminal and type in the following command to add the library to our dependencies:
> npm install v-mask
  1. We need to add it to Vue as a plugin, so head to main.js, and let's both import it and let Vue know that we want to register it as a plugin for all of our apps. Add the following code, after the import App line:
import VueMask from 'v-mask'
Vue.use(VueMask);

Now that we have registered our plugin, we have access to a new directive: v-mask. We can add this new directive directly onto our <input> elements, and the library will handle the masking behind the scenes by reading the user's input, and...