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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 final chapter, we created a project using a new full-stack framework called Meteor. We integrated Vue into the app and set up a Meteor reactive collection. Using a Meteor method, we inserted documents into the collection and displayed in real-time the data in a dashboard component.

This book may be over, but your journey using Vue is only beginning. We started with very basic concepts around templates and reactive data, writing simple applications without any build tools. Even with not much baggage, we were able to make a Mardown Notebook and even a browser Card Game with animations. Then, we started using the full set of tools at our disposal to make larger apps. The official command-line tool--vue-cli--was a great help in scaffolding our projects. The Single-File-Components (.vue files) make the components easy to maintain and evolve. We can even use preprocessing languages, such as stylus, very easily. The vue-router official library is mandatory for managing multiple pages...