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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Paul Halliday
Book Image

Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Paul Halliday

Overview of this book

Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices starts by comparing Vue.js with other frameworks and setting up the development environment for your application, and gradually moves on to writing and styling clean, maintainable, and reusable Vue.js components that can be used across your application. Further on, you'll look at common UI patterns, Vue form submission, and various modifiers such as lazy binding, number typecasting, and string trimming to create better UIs. You will also explore best practices for integrating HTTP into Vue.js applications to create an application with dynamic data. Routing is a vitally important part of any SPA, so you will focus on the vue-router and explore routing a user between multiple pages. Next, you'll also explore state management with Vuex, write testable code for your application, and create performant, server-side rendered applications with Nuxt. Toward the end, we'll look at common antipatterns to avoid, saving you from a lot of trial and error and development headaches. By the end of this book, you'll be on your way to becoming an expert Vue developer who can leverage design patterns to efficiently architect the design of your application and write clean and maintainable code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Vue.js Principles and Comparisons
12
Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt
Index

Using Wallaby.js for a better testing experience


We can also use Wallaby.js to see the results of our unit tests in real time within our editor. It's not a free tool, but you may find it useful when creating test-driven Vue applications. Let's start off by cloning/downloading a project that already has Wallaby set up. Run the following in your Terminal:

# Clone the repository
$ git clone https://github.com/ChangJoo-Park/vue-wallaby-webpack-template

# Change directory
$ cd vue-wallaby-webpack-template

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# At the time of writing this package is missing eslint-plugin-node
$ npm install eslint-plugin-node

# Run in browser
$ npm run dev

We can then open this up inside our editor and install the Wallaby.js extension inside our editor. You can find a list of supported editors and instructions at https://wallabyjs.com/download/.

I'll be installing this within Visual Studio Code, which starts by searching the extensions marketplace for Wallaby:

We can then tell...