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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)

Displaying a single product

With our data stored, we can now begin making our components and displaying content on the frontend. We're going to start by making a product view – displaying product details, variations, and images. We'll move on to creating the category listing page in Chapter 10, Building an E-Commerce Store – Browsing Products.

The first step in making our product view is to create the route, to allow the component to be displayed via a URL. Referring back to our notes at the beginning of the chapter, the product component is to be loaded on the /product/:slug path.

Create a routes array in your Vue-router, with the path and component specified:

const router = new VueRouter({
routes: [
{
path: '/product/:slug',
component: ProductPage
}

]
});

With the layout of the products object explained, we can start to understand...