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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

Vue CLI


The Vue Command Line Interface (CLI) allows us to quickly scaffold new Vue projects with a variety of different template options. Currently, the template options available include technologies such as Webpack, Browserify, and Progressive Web Application features.

Sure, we could create our own Vue application and manually add tools such as Webpack, but this creates technical overhead in the sense that we have to learn, build, and maintain our configuration. The Vue CLI does this for us while maintaining a select set of official templates, but doesn't restrict us from modifying the generated Webpack configuration. All of this allows us to generate new unopinionated Vue projects.

To start using the Vue CLI, let's ensure we have it installed:

npm install vue-cli -g

We can then use the Vue init command to scaffold a new Vue project using the Webpack template:

vue init webpack-simple my-vue-project

On entering the preceding command we should get the following as shown on the Terminal:

Creating...