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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)

The complete code—with added documentation

With our app complete, we can now add some much-needed documentation. It's always good to document your code as this gives it reasoning and explanation. Good documentation should not just say what the code does, but why it does it, what is allowed, and what is not allowed.

A popular method for documentation is the JavaScript DocBlock standard. This set of conventions lays out style guide-like rules for you to follow when documenting your code. DocBlock is formatted in a comment block and features keywords starting with an @, such as @author, @example, or listing what parameters a function can accept with the @param keyword. An example would be:

/**
* Displays a folder with a link and cache its contents
* @example <folder :f="entry" :cache="getFolderStructure"></folder>
*
* @param {object} f...