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Learning Vue.js 2

By : Olga Filipova
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Learning Vue.js 2

By: Olga Filipova

Overview of this book

Vue.js is one of the latest new frameworks to have piqued the interest of web developers due to its reactivity, reusable components, and ease of use. This book shows developers how to leverage its features to build high-performing, reactive web interfaces with Vue.js. From the initial structuring to full deployment, this book provides step-by-step guidance to developing an interactive web interface from scratch with Vue.js. You will start by building a simple application in Vue.js which will let you observe its features in action. Delving into more complex concepts, you will learn about reactive data binding, reusable components, plugins, filters, and state management with Vuex. This book will also teach you how to bring reactivity to an existing static application using Vue.js. By the time you finish this book you will have built, tested, and deployed a complete reactive application in Vue.js from scratch.

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Learning Vue.js 2
Olga Filipova
Dec, 2016 | 334 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Vue.js 2
Learning Vue.js 2
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Dedication
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Going Shopping with Vue.js
Going Shopping with Vue.js
Buzzwords
Vue.js history
The most important thing about Vue.js
Let's go shopping!
Using Vue.js in an existing project
Vue.js 2.0!
Projects using Vue.js
Book roadmap
Let's manage time!
Exercise
Summary
2
Fundamentals – Installing and Using
Fundamentals – Installing and Using
MVVM architectural pattern
DefineProperty, getters, and setters
Comparing with other frameworks
Vue.js fundamentals
Installing, using, and debugging a Vue.js application
Debugging your Vue application
Scaffolding our applications
Exercise
Summary
3
Components – Understanding and Using
Components – Understanding and Using
Revisiting components
Benefits of using components
Rewriting the shopping list with simple components
Exercise
Single-file components
Rewriting our shopping list application with single-file components
Exercise
Rewriting the Pomodoro application with single-file components
Reactive binding of CSS transitions
Summary
4
Reactivity – Binding Data to Your Application
Reactivity – Binding Data to Your Application
Revisiting data binding
Interpolating data
Using expressions and filters
Revisiting and applying directives
Kittens
Summary
5
Vuex – Managing State in Your Application
Vuex – Managing State in Your Application
Parent-child components' communication, events, and brain teaser
Why do we need a global state store?
What is Vuex?
How does the store work and what is so special about it?
Greetings with store
Installing and using the Vuex store in our applications
Using the Vuex store in the shopping list application
Using Vuex store in the Pomodoro application
Summary
6
Plugins – Building Your House with Your Own Bricks
Plugins – Building Your House with Your Own Bricks
The nature of Vue plugins
Using the vue-resource plugin in the shopping list application
Creating and using a plugin in the Pomodoro application
Summary
7
Testing – Time to Test What We Have Done So Far!
Testing – Time to Test What We Have Done So Far!
Why unit tests?
Unit tests for Vue application
Writing unit tests for the shopping list application
Writing unit tests for our Pomodoro application
What is end- to-end testing?
Nightwatch for e2e
Writing e2e tests for the Pomodoro application
Summary
8
Deploying – Time to Go Live!
Deploying – Time to Go Live!
Software deployment
Moving the application to the GitHub repository
Setting continuous integration with Travis
Deploying the Pomodoro application
Deploying the shopping list application
9
What Is Next?
What Is Next?
The journey so far
Vue 2.0
Revisiting our applications
Why is it just the beginning?
Summary
10
Solutions to Exercises
Solutions to Exercises
Exercise for chapter 1
Exercises for chapter 2
Exercises for chapter 3
Summary

Installing, using, and debugging a Vue.js application

In this section, we will analyze all the possible ways of installing Vue.js. We will also create a skeleton for our applications that we will develop and enhance through the next chapters. We will also learn the ways of debugging and testing our applications.

Installing Vue.js

There are a number of ways to install Vue.js. Starting from classic, including the downloaded script into HTML within the <script> tags, using tools like bower, npm, or Vue's command-line interface (vue-cli), to bootstrap the whole application.

Let's have a look at all these methods and choose our favorite. In all these examples, we will just show a header on a page saying Learning Vue.js.

Standalone

Download the vue.js file. There are two versions, minified and developer version. The development version is at https://vuejs.org/js/vue.js . The minified version is at https://vuejs.org/js/vue.min.js .

Tip

If you are developing, make sure you use the development non...

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