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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

Model


One of the most common requirements for any business application is text input. Vue assists us with this need with the v-model directive. It allows us to create reactive two-way data bindings on form input events, making working with forms easily. It's a welcome abstraction over what would otherwise be a tedious way to get form values and input events. To explore this, we can create a new Vue project:

# Create a new Vue project
$ vue init webpack-simple vue-model

# Navigate to directory
$ cd vue-model

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run application
$ npm run dev

We can head over to our root App.vue file and remove everything from the template and instead add a new div that encompasses a label and form input:

<template>
 <div id="app">
  <label>Name:</label>
  <input type="text">
 </div>
</template>

This gives us the ability to add text to our input element, that is, prompting the user to input their name. I'd like to capture this value...