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Building Forms with Vue.js

By : Marina Mosti Hernandez Mosti
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Building Forms with Vue.js

By: Marina Mosti Hernandez Mosti

Overview of this book

Almost every web application and site out there handles user input in one way or another, from registration forms and log-in handling to registration and landing pages. Building Forms with Vue.js follows a step-by-step approach to help you create an efficient user interface (UI) and seamless user experience (UX) by building quick and easy-to-use forms. You’ll get off to a steady start by setting up the demo project. Next, you’ll get to grips with component composition from creating reusable form components through to implementing the custom input components. To further help you develop a convenient user input experience, the book will show you how to enhance custom inputs with v-mask. As you progress, you’ll get up to speed with using Vuelidate and Vuex to effectively integrate your forms. You’ll learn how to create forms that use global state, reactive instant user input validation and input masking, along with ensuring that they are completely schema-driven and connected to your application’s API. Every chapter builds on the concepts learned in the previous chapter, while also allowing you to skip ahead to the topics you’re most interested in. By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to transform even the simplest form into a crafted user and developer experience with Vue.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Submitting the form's data

As it currently is, the form is getting submitted to the same URL when you click the Submit button. This is not Vue magic—this is just default <form> behavior, especially since we didn't specify an action attribute on the tag.

In most real-world scenarios, you'll want to perform a couple of operations before submitting a form. The most common would be validating some inputs, or perhaps even overriding the default submit behavior with an asynchronous call using a library such as Axios. 

First, we need to make sure that, when the user clicks the Submit button, we prevent the form from going out on its own. We also want to bind a new method to it being clicked.

Let's bind to the form's submit event first. Remember that we want to add the .prevent modifier to the event so that, when the form is submitted, the...