Relatively new as a UI library, Vue is a very serious challenger to current leading libraries such as Angular and React. It has a lot to offer--it is simple, flexible, and very fast, yet it still provides all the features necessary to build a full-blown modern web app.
Its progressive nature makes it easy to get started with, and then you can use more advanced features to scale your app up. Vue also have a rich ecosystem surrounding it, including official first-party libraries for routing and state management, bootstrapping, and unit-testing. Vue even supports server-side rendering out of the box!
All this is possible thanks to an amazing community and an awesome core team that drive innovation on the web and make Vue a sustainable open source project.
To help you learn Vue and build apps with it, this book is structured as a series of six guides. Each guide is a concrete project, in which you will build a real application by yourself. This means you will have six Vue apps up and running by the end!
Just like Vue, the projects are progressive and introduce new topics step by step to make your learning experience easier. The first projects don't require extensive configuration or build tools, so you can make concrete apps right away. Then, more advanced topics will be progressively added to the project so that you will have a complete skill set by the end of the book.
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Vue,covers how to create a basic Vue app with a dynamic template and basic interactivity, thanks to directives.
Chapter 2, Project 1 - Markdown Notebook, explores the creation of a complete Vue app with features such as computed properties, methods, life cycle hooks, list displays, DOM events, dynamic CSS, template conditionals, and filter formatting.
Chapter 3, Project 2 - Castle Duel Browser Game, explains the creation of a browser card game structured as a tree of reusable components that communicate with each other. It also features animations and dynamic SVG graphics.
Chapter 4, Advanced Project Setup, focuses on how to use the official Vue command-line tool to bootstrap a full blown project with webpack, babel, and more build tools. It also covers the Single-File Component format, allowing readers to create components as building blocks.
Chapter 5, Project 3 - Support Center, takes you through how to structure a multipage app with the official routing library--nested routes, dynamic parameters, navigation guards, and such. The project also features a custom user login system.
Chapter 6, Project 4 - Geolocated Blog, walks through the creation of an app featuring Google OAuth login and the Google Maps API. This chapter also covers the important topic of state management using the official VueX library, plus fast functional components.
Chapter 7, Project 5 - Online Shop and Scaling up, outlines advanced development techniques such as checking code quality with ESLint, unit testing Vue components with Jest, translating an app into multiple languages, and improving speed and SEO with server-side rendering.
Chapter 8, Project 6 - Real-time Dashboard with Meteor, teaches you how to use Vue in a Meteor app in order to take advantage of the real-time capabilities of this full-stack framework.
To follow this book, you will only need a text or code editor (Visual Studio Code and Atom are recommended) and a web browser (preferably the latest version of Firefox or Chrome for the development tools).
If you are a web developer who now wants to create rich and interactive professional applications using Vue.js, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of JavaScript is assumed. Familiarity with HTML, Node.js, and tools such as npm and webpack will be helpful, but not necessary.
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