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Vue.js 2.x by Example

By : Mike Street
Book Image

Vue.js 2.x by Example

By: Mike Street

Overview of this book

Vue.js is a frontend web framework which makes it easy to do just about anything, from displaying data up to creating full-blown web apps, and has become a leading tool for web developers. This book puts Vue.js into a real-world context, guiding you through example projects that helps you build Vue.js applications from scratch. With this book, you will learn how to use Vue.js by creating three Single Page web applications. Throughout this book, we will cover the usage of Vue, for building web interfaces, Vuex, an official Vue plugin which makes caching and storing data easier, and Vue-router, a plugin for creating routes and URLs for your application. Starting with a JSON dataset, the first part of the book covers Vue objects and how to utilize each one. This will be covered by exploring different ways of displaying data from a JSON dataset. We will then move on to manipulating the data with filters and search and creating dynamic values. Next, you will see how easy it is to integrate remote data into an application by learning how to use the Dropbox API to display your Dropbox contents in an application In the final section, you will see how to build a product catalog and dynamic shopping cart using the Vue-router, giving you the building blocks of an e-commerce store.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating a curated list for the home page

With our product listing component in place, we can proceed with making a curated list of products for our home page, and add more information to the product listing.

In this example, we are going to hardcode an array of product handles on our home page component that we want to display. If this were in development, you would expect this list to be controlled via a content management system or similar.

Create a data function on your HomePage component, that which includes an array titled selectedProducts:

data() {
return {
selectedProducts: []
}
},

Populate the array with several handles from the product list. Try and get about six, but if you go over 12, remember it will paginate with our component. Add your selected handles to the selectedProducts array:

data() {
return {
selectedProducts: [
'adjustable-stem',
...