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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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Server setup

With our shop, we are going to be loading in a CSV of products on page load. This will simulate gathering stock and product data from a database or API from a point-of-sale system, something online shops with a physical shop might have to deal with.

In a similar way to our Dropbox app earlier in the book, we will be loading external data and saving it into the Vuex store. The issue we will face, however, is when loading a resource via JavaScript; the browsers demand the protocol for the file being requested is via HTTP, HTTPS, or is a CORS request.

This means that we are unable to load a local file using the fetch() technique we used with the Dropbox API as, when viewing our app in the browser, we are loading local assets over the file:// protocol.

We can resolve this issue in a few different ways – which one you choose depends on your circumstance. We are...