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Vue.js 2.x by Example

By : Mike Street

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Vue.js

Getting Started with Vue.js

Creating the workspace

Initializing Vue and displaying the first message

Computed values

Methods and reusable functions

Displaying, Looping, Searching, and Filtering Data

Displaying, Looping, Searching, and Filtering Data

HTML declarations

Conditional rendering

v-for and displaying our data

Filtering our data

Showing and hiding Vue content

Changing CSS classes

Filtering and custom classes

Optimizing your App and Using Components to Display Data

Optimizing your App and Using Components to Display Data

Optimizing the code

Creating Vue components

Using component data and methods

Passing data to your component – props

Passing data to your component – slots

Creating a repeatable component

Making the filters a component

Getting a List of Files Using the Dropbox API

Getting a List of Files Using the Dropbox API

Getting started—loading the libraries

Creating a Dropbox app and initializing the SDK

Displaying your data and using Vue to get it

Adding a loading screen

Animating between states

Navigating through the File Tree and Loading Folders from the URL

Navigating through the File Tree and Loading Folders from the URL

Separating out files and folders

Making file and folder components

Linking folders and updating the structure

Creating a breadcrumb from the current path

Adding the ability to download files

Updating the URL hash and using it to navigate through the folders

Caching the Current Folder Structure Using Vuex

Caching the Current Folder Structure Using Vuex

Including and initializing Vuex

Utilizing the store

Using the Vuex store for the folder path

Caching the folder contents

Loading data from the store if it exists

Pre-Caching Other Folders and Files for Faster Navigation

Pre-Caching Other Folders and Files for Faster Navigation

Caching subfolders

Caching parent folders

Caching download links on files

The complete code—with added documentation

Introducing Vue-Router and Loading URL-Based Components

Introducing Vue-Router and Loading URL-Based Components

Installing and initializing Vue-router

Changing the folder for Vue-router

Linking to the different routes

Linking to sub-routes

Dynamic routes with parameters

Creating a 404 page

Naming components, routes, and views

Programmatically navigating with, redirecting, and adding an alias

Using Vue-Router Dynamic Routes to Load Data

Using Vue-Router Dynamic Routes to Load Data

Outline and plan your app

Create initial files

Displaying a single product

Displaying product information

Product variations

Updating the product details when switching URLs

Building an E-Commerce Store – Browsing Products

Building an E-Commerce Store – Browsing Products

Listing the products

Creating pagination

Creating the ListProducts component

Creating a curated list for the home page

Showing more information

Creating categories

Displaying the categories

Displaying products in a category

Ordering products in a category

Creating Vuex getters

Building the filtering component based on products

Updating the URL on checkbox filter change

Filtering the products

Building an E-Commerce Store – Adding a Checkout

Building an E-Commerce Store – Adding a Checkout

Creating the basket array placeholder

Adding product information to the store

Updating the Add to basket button when adding an item

Showing the product count in the header of the app

Finalizing the Shop Vue-router URLs

Building the Order process and ListProducts component

Creating an Order Checkout page

Creating an editable basket

Completing the shop SPA

Using Vue Dev Tools and Testing Your SPA

Using Vue Dev Tools and Testing Your SPA

Using the Vue.js developer tools

Testing your SPA

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Caching download links on files

When the user is navigating around the document tree, the Dropbox API is still being queried more than necessary. This is because every time a file is displayed, we query the API to retrieve the download link. Extra API queries can be negated by storing the download link response in the cache and re-displaying the folder it is navigated back into.

Every time a file is displayed, a new component gets initialized using data from the store. We can use this to our advantage as it means we only need to update the component instance and then the result gets cached.

In your file component, update the API response to not only save the result on the link property of the data attribute but the on the file instance, f, as well. This will be stored as a new key, download_link.

When storing the data, rather than having two separate commands, we can combine them...