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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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Vue.js 2
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Benefits of using components


There are some things that we need to learn before going deep into the components and rewrite our applications using them. In this section, we will cover things such as handling data and el properties inside a component, component templates, scope, and preprocessors.

Declaring templates in HTML

In our previous example, we created a Vue component with a template written as a string. It's actually easy and nice because we have everything we need inside our component. Now imagine our component with a more complex HTML structure. Writing a complex HTML string template is error-prone, ugly, and against best practices.

Tip

By best practices, I mean clean and maintainable code. Complex HTML written as a string is anything but maintainable.

Vue allows declaring templates inside an HTML file within a special <template> tag!

So, to rewrite our example, we will declare an HTML tag template with the corresponding markup inside:

<template id="hello"> 
  <h1&gt...