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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

Creating Schema-Driven Forms

Forms come in different shapes, sizes, and levels of complexity. It is relatively simple to quickly scaffold a login form or a contact form with a few fields, but what happens when you have to take it to the next level and create a completely dynamic form that is driven by an API or schema?

Up until now, we have worked with a relatively simple form that only asks the user for some basic data but everything is hardcoded as a static form. If our mock website wanted to add or remove some fields from the form, we would have to manually make the changes, deploy them to our server, and possibly even adjust the backend to handle the different fields. But what if we wanted to automate this whole process?

In this chapter, we will build an example dynamic form that will be completely powered by an API endpoint. Schema-driven forms are very powerful, as they can...