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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Paul Halliday
Book Image

Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Paul Halliday

Overview of this book

Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices starts by comparing Vue.js with other frameworks and setting up the development environment for your application, and gradually moves on to writing and styling clean, maintainable, and reusable Vue.js components that can be used across your application. Further on, you'll look at common UI patterns, Vue form submission, and various modifiers such as lazy binding, number typecasting, and string trimming to create better UIs. You will also explore best practices for integrating HTTP into Vue.js applications to create an application with dynamic data. Routing is a vitally important part of any SPA, so you will focus on the vue-router and explore routing a user between multiple pages. Next, you'll also explore state management with Vuex, write testable code for your application, and create performant, server-side rendered applications with Nuxt. Toward the end, we'll look at common antipatterns to avoid, saving you from a lot of trial and error and development headaches. By the end of this book, you'll be on your way to becoming an expert Vue developer who can leverage design patterns to efficiently architect the design of your application and write clean and maintainable code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Vue.js Principles and Comparisons
12
Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt
Index

Progressive Web Applications (PWAs)


PWAs can be defined as applications that use the capabilities of the modern web to deliver thoughtful, engaging, and interactive experiences. My definition of PWAs is one that encompasses the principle of progressive enhancement. We could certainly take advantage of everything that PWAs have to offer, but we don't have to (or at least not all at once).

This means that not only are we continuing to improve our application over time, but adhering to these principles forces us to think in the perspective of a user who has bad internet connectivity, wants an offline-first experience, needs home-screen accessible apps, and so on.

Once again, the Vue CLI makes this process easy for us, as it provides a PWA template. Let's create a new Vue application with the appropriate template:

# Create a new Vue project
$ vue init pwa vue-pwa

? Project name vue-pwa
? Project short name: fewer than 12 characters to not be truncated on homescreens (default: same as name) 
?...