Chapter 1, Getting Started, is where you create your first Vue application and get familiar with the most common features and development tools.

Chapter 2, Basic Vue.js Features, is where you effortlessly build lists and  forms, and learn how to style them.Chapter 3, Transitions and Animations, where you learn how transitions and animations work to bring more life to your apps. You will also integrate with external CSS libraries.

Chapter 4, Components!, is where you realize everything in Vue is a component and you can exploit this to reduce duplication and reuse your code.

Chapter 5, Communicate with the Internet, is where you make your first AJAX call and create forms and a full fledged REST client (and server!).

Chapter 6, Single Page Applications, is where you use vue-router to create static and dynamic routes to create a modern SPA.

Chapter 7, Unit Testing and End-To-End Testing, is where you learn to create professional software by adding Karma, Chai, Moka, Sinon.JS, and nightwatch to make sure you can refactor your app with confidence.

Chapter 8, Organize + Automate + Deploy = Webpack, is where you actually publish your accurately crafted components to npm and learn how Webpack and Vue play together in the process.

Chapter 9, Advanced Vue.js, is where you explore directives, plugins, functional components, and JSX.

Chapter 10, Large Application Patterns with Vuex, is where you structure your application with tested patterns using Vuex to make sure your apps are maintainable and performant.

Chapter 11, Integrating with External Frameworks, is where you build four different applications with Vue and Electron, Firebase, Feathers, and Horizon.

To follow along with this book, you'll need a computer with an Internet connection. You can choose to work online on Chrome to complete the recipes. At some point, you will need at least a text editor; I highly recommend Microsoft Visual Studio Code for this job.

This book has been tested on people who didn’t even know JavaScript. They were able to pick up Vue by reading the first chapter! Going forward, you will find concepts that are more and more advanced and, even if you are familiar with Vue 2, you will probably find some trick you didn't know about or some wise suggestion that will help you along the way.

This book, if followed from cover to cover, will turn you into a proficient Vue developer. On the other hand, if you already are, it provides a good reference for many different features and techniques that may come in handy from time to time. Finally, this book is also a valid migration guide if you have already experimented with Vue 1 and you feel overwhelmed by change.

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently (Getting ready, How to do it, How it works, There's more, and See also).

To give clear instructions on how to complete a recipe, we use these sections as follows:

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "I'm going to update the ChasePlayerComponent class that already exists in the EngineTest project."

A block of code is set as follows:

new Vue({ 
  el: '#app', 
  methods: { 
    vueSubmit() { 
      console.info('fake AJAX request') 
    } 
  } 
})

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

data: { 
 userId: 1, 
 title: '', 
 body: '', 
 response: '...'
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

npm install axios

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Open Webstorm and create a new Empty Project"

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