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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

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at how we can take advantage of the Vue CLI to scaffold new Vue projects with appropriate bundling configurations and ES2015 support. We've seen that not only does this give us extra power, but it also saves us a significant amount of time in the long run. We don't have to remember how to create a Webpack or Babel configuration, as this is all handled for us by the starter templates; but even still, if we want to add extra configuration options, we can.

We then looked at how we can implement TypeScript with Webpack and the ts-loader, as well as taking advantage of common TypeScript and Vue patterns with the property decorator(s). This allows us to take advantage of core tooling and help reduce bugs in our code.

Finally, we also implemented RxJS and Vue-Rx in our application to take advantage of the Observable pattern. If you're interested in using RxJS inside of your projects, this is a good starting point for future integrations.

In the next chapter, we're...