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Vue.js 3 By Example

By : John Au-Yeung
Book Image

Vue.js 3 By Example

By: John Au-Yeung

Overview of this book

With its huge ecosystem and wide adoption, Vue is one of the leading frameworks thanks to its ease of use when developing applications. However, it can get challenging for aspiring Vue.js developers to make sense of the ecosystem and build meaningful applications. This book will help you understand how you can leverage Vue effectively to develop impressive apps quickly using its latest version – Vue 3.0. The book takes an example-based approach to help you get to grips with the basics of Vue 3 and create a simple application by exploring features such as components and directives. You'll then enhance your app building skills by learning how to test the app with Jest and Vue Test Utils. As you advance, you'll understand how to write non-web apps with Vue 3, create cross-platform desktop apps with the Electron plugin, and build a multi-purpose mobile app with Vue and Ionic. You'll also be able to develop web apps with Vue 3 that interact well with GraphQL APIs. Finally, you'll build a chat app that performs real-time communication using Vue 3 and Laravel. By the end of this Vue.js book, you'll have developed the skills you need to build real-world apps using Vue 3 by working through a range of projects.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Debugging with Vue.js Devtools

Right now, there is no easy way to debug our app. All we can do is add console.log statements to our code to look at the values. With Vue.js Devtools, we can have more visibility in our app. Vue.js Devtools is a Chrome or Firefox extension that we can use to debug our Vue.js applications. It can be used on projects that are created with Vite or created from scratch by including the script tag for Vue 3. We can install the extension by searching for the Vue.js Devtools extension in the respective browser's app store.

Important:

The URL to install the Chrome version of Vue.js Devtools is at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vuejs-devtools/nhdogjmejiglipccpnnnanhbledajbpd.

The Firefox version of the add-on is at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/vue-js-devtools/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search.

Once we've installed it, we should see the Vue tab in the browser's development...