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Vue.js 3 By Example

By : John Au-Yeung
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned that Vue 3 is a component-based framework, and we looked at the different parts of the component. One important part we covered was reactive properties. They are properties of the component that we can change to update all the parts of the app that reference the reactive property. These properties can be watched manually, and any value changes are also picked up automatically by Vue 3 so that any parts of the app that reference the reactive property are updated automatically. Components are composed in a way that they can be reused whenever possible.

We then moved on to understand the role of a template in every component. Templates are also a part of every component. They must all render something onto the screen. Templates can have HTML elements, other components, and directives that modify how the elements and components in the template are rendered. Templates can have JavaScript expressions in them so that we can do things such as react to...