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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

Chapter 6. Creating Better UI

Transitions and animations are great ways of creating a better user experience within our applications. As there's so many different options and use cases, they can make or break the feel of an application if under or overused. We'll be looking at this concept further within this chapter.

We'll also be looking at form validation with a third-party library named Vuelidate. This will allow us to create forms that scale with the size of our application. We'll also gain the power to change the UI depending on form state, as well as display helpful validation messages to assist the user.

Finally, we'll look at how we can use the render function and JSX to compose the user interface with Vue. While this is not perfect for every scenario, there are times where you'd want to take full advantage of JavaScript within your templates, as well as create smart/presentational components with the Functional Component model.

By the end of this chapter, you will have:

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