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Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects

By : CHAU GUILLAUME
Book Image

Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects

By: CHAU GUILLAUME

Overview of this book

Do you want to make your web application amazingly responsive? Are you unhappy with your app's performance and looking forward to trying out ways to make your app more powerful? Then Vue.js, a framework for building user interfaces, is a great choice, and this book is the ideal way to put it through its paces. This book's project-based approach will get you to build six stunning applications from scratch and gain valuable insights in Vue.js 2.5. You'll start by learning the basics of Vue.js and create your first web app using directives along with rich and attractive user experiences. You will learn about animations and interactivity by creating a browser-based game. Using the available tools and preprocessor, you will learn how to create multi-page apps with plugins. You will create highly efficient and performant functional components for your app. Next, you will create your own online store and optimize it. Finally, you will integrate Vue.js with the real-time Meteor library and create a dashboard showing real-time data. By the end of this book you will have enough skills and will have worked through enough examples of real Vue.js projects to create interactive professional web applications with Vue.js 2.5.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

A basic note editor


We will start small with a very simple markdown note app that only displays a text editor on the left and a markdown preview on the right. Then, we will turn it into a full notebook with multiple note support.

Setting up the project

For this project, we will have a few files ready to get us started:

  1. First, download simple-notebook project files and extract them in the same folder. Open the index.html file and add a div element with the notebook ID and a nested section element with the main class. You should have the following content inside the file:
      <html>
      <head>
        <title>Notebook</title>
        <!-- Icons & Stylesheets -->
        <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?                   
        family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
      </head>
      <body>
        <!-- Include the library in the page -->
        <script src...