Structuring with the repository pattern
When building a large-scale, enterprise-ready Vue application, you must get the project’s structure right from the ground up.
Separating your Vuex store into individual modules based on an application’s features is excellent and provides direct access to files, making debugging and maintenance a breeze.
Using this method alone poses a problem. Your Vuex actions become extremely large with many API calls, extracting API data, and handling errors all happening in the Vuex actions.
Introducing the repository pattern helps eliminate this bloated code base and separates the API calls and management from Vuex.
In this section, we will first get an overview of the repository pattern. Then, we will create a repository folder for our Vue application.
Firstly, before we explore how to use the repository pattern in Vuex, let’s get a clear overview of the repository pattern and what can be achieved with it.