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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

Nuxt


Nuxt introduces the concept of Universal Vue Applications, as it allows us to take advantage of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with ease. At the same time, Nuxt also gives us the ability to generate static sites, which means that the content is rendered as HTML, CSS, and JS files without going backward and forward from the server.

That's not all—Nuxt handles route generation and doesn't detract from any core features of Vue. Let's create a Nuxt project.

Creating a Nuxt project

We can use Vue CLI to create a new Nuxt project using the starter template. This provides us with a barebones Nuxt project and saves us from having to configure everything manually. We'll be creating a "recipe list" application named "Hearty Home Cooking" that uses a REST API to get category and recipe names. Run the following command in your Terminal to create a new Nuxt project:

# Create a new Nuxt project
$ vue init nuxt-community/starter-template vue-nuxt

# Change directory
$ cd vue-nuxt

# Install dependencies...