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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Halliday

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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

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By: Halliday

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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.

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Vue.js Principles and Comparisons

Prerequisites

How Vue.js compares

Summary

Proper Creation of Vue Projects

Visual Studio Code extensions

Vue CLI

VueJS devtools

TypeScript and Vue

RxJS and Vue

Summary

Proxying

Data properties

Computed properties

Watched properties

Lifecycle hooks

Vue.js and the Virtual DOM

Summary

Writing Clean and Lean Code with Vue

Proxying

Data properties

Computed properties

Watched properties

Lifecycle hooks

Vue.js and the Virtual DOM

Summary

Vue.js Directives

Model

Iteration with v-for

Bindings

DOM events and v-on

Conditionally showing DOM elements

Filters

Summary

Secured Communication with Vue.js Components

Your first Vue component

Component communication

Event Bus

Slots

Summary

Creating Better UI

Animations

CSS animations

Transitions

Form validation

Render/functional components

Summary

HTTP and WebSocket Communication

HTTP

Real-time chat application with Node and Socket.io

Summary

Vue Router Patterns

Single Page Applications

Using the router

An SPA project

Summary

State Management with Vuex

What is Vuex?

Using Vuex

Vuex and Vue devtools

Modules and scalability

Summary

Testing Vue.js Applications

Why testing?

Unit testing

Using Wallaby.js for a better testing experience

Summary

Optimization

Progressive Web Applications (PWAs)

Firebase deployment

Continuous Integration (CI)

Service worker

Summary

Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt

Nuxt

Summary

Patterns

Components

Summary

VueJS devtools

Being able to accurately debug our application is an important part of our development workflow. In the previous chapter, we installed the VueJS devtools, and we'll be looking at using it in more detail within this section. Let's make a playground project:

# New project
vue init webpack-simple vue-devtools

# Change directory
cd vue-devtools

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run application
npm run dev

We can then open up our developer console and navigate to the Vue tab. When we select App from within the components list, we can see the data object(s) and other information for this component. By default, we have the msg variable that we're then binding to within our template, and we can see this within our developer tools: