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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned more about the Vue instance and how we can take advantage of a variety of property types such as data, watchers, computed values, and more. We've learned about how this works in JavaScript and the differences when using it inside of a Vue instance. Furthermore, we've investigated the DOM and why Vue uses the Virtual DOM to create performant applications.

In summary, data properties allow for reactive properties within our templates, computed properties allow us to take our template and filtering logic and separate it into performant properties that can be accessed within our templates, and watched properties allow us to work with the complexities of asynchronous operations.

In the next chapter, we'll be taking an in-depth look at Vue directives, such as v-if, v-model, v-for, and how they can be used to create powerful reactive applications.