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Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects

By : CHAU GUILLAUME
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Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects

By: CHAU GUILLAUME

Overview of this book

Do you want to make your web application amazingly responsive? Are you unhappy with your app's performance and looking forward to trying out ways to make your app more powerful? Then Vue.js, a framework for building user interfaces, is a great choice, and this book is the ideal way to put it through its paces. This book's project-based approach will get you to build six stunning applications from scratch and gain valuable insights in Vue.js 2.5. You'll start by learning the basics of Vue.js and create your first web app using directives along with rich and attractive user experiences. You will learn about animations and interactivity by creating a browser-based game. Using the available tools and preprocessor, you will learn how to create multi-page apps with plugins. You will create highly efficient and performant functional components for your app. Next, you will create your own online store and optimize it. Finally, you will integrate Vue.js with the real-time Meteor library and create a dashboard showing real-time data. By the end of this book you will have enough skills and will have worked through enough examples of real Vue.js projects to create interactive professional web applications with Vue.js 2.5.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Dashboard and reporting


Now that our first page is done, we can continue with the real-time dashboard.

Progress bars library

To display some pretty indicators, let's install another Vue library that allows drawing progress bars along SVG paths; that way, we can have semi-circular bars:

  1. Add the vue-progress-path npm package to the project:
      meteor npm i -S vue-progress-path

We need to tell the Vue compiler for Meteor not to process the files in node_modules where the package is installed.

  1. Create a new .vueignore file in the project root directory. This file works like a .gitignore: each line is a rule to ignore some paths. If it ends with a slash /, it will ignore only corresponding folders. So, the content of .vueignore should be as follows:
      node_modules/
  1. Finally, install the vue-progress-path plugin in the client/main.js file:
      import 'vue-progress-path/dist/vue-progress-path.css'
      import VueProgress from 'vue-progress-path'

Vue.use(VueProgress, {
        defaultShape: 'semicircle...