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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

RxJS and Vue


If you come from an Angular background, you'll most likely feel right at home with at least the basic concepts of RxJS. This means we're usually dealing with things such as Observables, Subjects, and a variety of operators. If you haven't used them before, not to worry - we'll be investigating what RxJS is, and why we'd want to use it within Vue.

What is RxJS?

If we look at the RxJS documentation, we're greeted with the following definition: "ReactiveX is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences" (http://reactivex.io/intro.html). At first glance, this is not exactly a description that makes us feel comfortable using this within our projects.

RxJS assists us in using reactive programming principles inside of our application, often referred to as a more declarative style rather than imperative. When we talk about an imperative programming style, we're usually telling the computer the exact steps of how to do a particular task. A...