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Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects

By : CHAU GUILLAUME
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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)

Summary


In this chapter, we created our first real Vue app, with several useful functions, like a real-time markdown preview, a note list, and the local persistence of the notes. We introduced different Vue features, such as the computed properties that are automatically updated and cached as needed, the methods to reuse logic inside functions, the watchers to trigger code when properties change, lifecycle hooks to execute code when the Vue instance is created, and the filters to easily process expressions in our template. We also used a lot of Vue directives inside our template, such as ;v-model to bind form inputs, v-html to display dynamic HTML from our JavaScript properties, v-for to repeat elements and display lists, v-on (or @) to listen to events, v-bind (or :) to dynamically bind HTML attributes to JavaScript expressions or to apply CSS classes dynamically, and v-if to include or not template parts, depending on JavaScript expressions. We saw all of these features come together to...