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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

Visual Studio Code extensions


Our development environment is an important part of application development. When using Visual Studio Code to create Vue applications, the following extensions are recommended:

  • Vetur
  • Vue 2 Snippets

Let's take a look at both of these in more detail.

Vetur

Vetur is powered by the Vue Language Server and provides us with syntax highlighting, Emmet (for increased HTML/CSS workflow), snippets, linting, IntelliSense, and more. This greatly improves our development experience and is widely supported, with over 1,000 stars on GitHub. To install the extension, click the Extensions icon within Visual Studio Code and type Vetur; from here, you can select Install and it'll automatically be used throughout your project(s):

Installing Vetur

This then gives us access to snippets such as scaffold, which generates a new blank template, script, and style object(s) for us to use within our Vue components:

Scaffolding a new Vue project

Vue 2 Snippets

Snippets are an important part of application...