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Vue.js 2 Cookbook

By : Andrea Passaglia
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Vue.js 2 Cookbook

By: Andrea Passaglia

Overview of this book

Vue.js is an open source JavaScript library for building modern, interactive web applications. With a rapidly growing community and a strong ecosystem, Vue.js makes developing complex single page applications a breeze. Its component-based approach, intuitive API, blazing fast core, and compact size make Vue.js a great solution to craft your next front-end application. From basic to advanced recipes, this book arms you with practical solutions to common tasks when building an application using Vue. We start off by exploring the fundamentals of Vue.js: its reactivity system, data-binding syntax, and component-based architecture through practical examples. After that, we delve into integrating Webpack and Babel to enhance your development workflow using single file components. Finally, we take an in-depth look at Vuex for state management and Vue Router to route in your single page applications, and integrate a variety of technologies ranging from Node.js to Electron, and Socket.io to Firebase and HorizonDB. This book will provide you with the best practices as determined by the Vue.js community.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Using components in your own components


We are talking about composition. Composition is a basic principle in software engineering that allows you to build big and complex systems out of small and self-contained pieces. The working is not exoteric but is similar to playing with Legos.

Getting ready

Before venturing in composition, you should be able to create components in the first place. Go to the Creating and registering a component recipe if you need a refresher. Since this recipe uses props, you should also complete the Passing data to your components with props recipe to be on track.

How to do it...

We will build a menu for a restaurant. We will have a component for the complete course, and it will contain a smaller component for the individual dishes.

We will first go bottom-up by writing the component for every dish:

Vue.component('dish', { 
   template: ` 
     <p class="dish"> 
       {{ham}} &lt;- Delicious! 
     </p> 
   `, 
   props: ['ham'] 
 })

The &lt; part...