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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

Chapter 11. Optimization

If you've been writing applications targeting the web platform for many years, you'll have seen just how many changes the web has gone through. What started off as a simple document viewer now sees us having to deal with complex build steps, state management patterns, continuous review of performance and compatibility, and much more.

Thankfully, the popularity of JavaScript and subsequent tooling means that there are templates and tried-and-tested techniques that we can use to optimize our application and deployment.

In this chapter, we'll take a look at the following topics:

  • The vue-pwa template from the Vue CLI
  • Features of Progressive Web Applications
  • Using ngrok to view localhost applications on any device
  • Using Firebase hosting to deploy web applications
  • Continuous Integration and what it means for large-scale projects
  • Automatically running tests on each Git commit
  • Automatically deploying to Firebase hosting on each Git commit