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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)

Game world and scenery


We are mostly done with the UI elements, so we can now go into the game scenery components. We will have some new components to do--the player castles, a health and food bubble for each one, and some animated clouds in the background for good measure.

Create a new world.js file in the components folder, and include it in the page:

<!-- ... -->
<script src="components/ui.js"></script>
<script src="components/world.js"></script>
<script src="main.js"></script>

We will start with the castles.

The castles

This one is actually pretty simple since it consists of only two images and a castle-banners component that will take care of the health and food display:

  1. In the world.js file, create a new castle component with two images that accepts a players and an index prop:
      Vue.component('castle', {
        template: `<div class="castle" :class="'player-' + index">
          <img class="building" :src="'svg/castle' + index + '.svg...