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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)

Using our app with photo management APIs

In the previous sections, we looked at the client-side part of the photo display. To return the photos from the API, we have to add a backend API that will enable us to store and retrieve the data for our app. Since this book is mostly focused on client-side app development with Vue 3 and not server-side app development, we will use a simple API solution to store our data with JSON so that we don't have to create our own API. All of the data is stored in a flat-file database, which is entirely JSON. To do this, we use the JSON Server package. This is a package that requires no configuration, and we can get it running in only a minute. All our fields are stored as JSON object properties, so they need to be text, including images. This package is made for frontend developers who require a backend to quickly prototype our apps.

First, we run npm i –g json-server to install the JSON Server package. This way, we can access the JSON...