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Vue.js 3 Cookbook

By : Heitor Ramon Ribeiro
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Vue.js 3 Cookbook

By: Heitor Ramon Ribeiro

Overview of this book

Vue.js is a progressive web framework for building professional user interfaces for your web applications. With Vue.js 3, the frontend framework is reinforced with architectural enhancements, new base languages, new render processes, and separated core components. The book starts with recipes for implementing Vue.js 3’s new features in your web development projects and migrating your existing Vue.js apps to the latest version. You will get up and running with TypeScript with Vue.js and find succinct solutions to common challenges and pitfalls faced in implementing components, derivatives, and animation, through to building plugins, adding state management, routing, and developing complete single-page applications (SPAs). As you advance, you'll discover recipes to help you integrate Vue.js apps with Nuxt.js in order to add server-side rendering capabilities to your SPAs. You'll then learn about the Vue.js ecosystem by exploring modern frameworks such as Quasar, Nuxt.js, Vuex, and Vuetify in your web projects. Finally, the book provides you with solutions for packaging and deploying your Vue.js apps. By the end of this Vue.js book, you'll be able to identify and solve challenges faced in building Vue.js applications and be able to adopt the Vue.js framework for frontend web projects of any scale.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
5
Fetching Data from the Web via HTTP Requests
6
Managing Routes with vue-router
7
Managing the Application State with Vuex
11
Directives, Plugins, SSR, and More
Vue

Adding Vuex via the vue ui

When importing an old project that was created via the Vue-CLI, it is possible to automatically add Vuex through the vue ui interface without any effort at all. We will learn how to add the Vuex library to the old project, so we can continue developing the recipe.

In the following steps, we will add the Vuex with the vue ui interface:

  1. In the project folder, open the vue ui by executing the following command on Terminal (macOS or Linux) or Command Prompt/PowerShell (Windows):
> vue ui
  1. Select the correct project that you are working on. In the right sidebar, click on the Plugins menu icon:
  1. On the plugins page, on the top bar, click on the Add vuex button. This will trigger a pop-up modal, then click on the Continue button to finish the installation of Vuex on the application:
  1. Adding the Vuex to our application will change the structure of the application. First, we will notice that there is a new folder called store in the src folder, and in the main...