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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

HTTP


Let's start off by creating a new Vue.js project that we can use as a playground project. Type the following in your Terminal:

# Create a new Vue project
$ vue init webpack-simple vue-http

# Navigate to directory
$ cd vue-http
# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run application
$ npm run dev

There are many ways to create HTTP requests within JavaScript. We'll be using the Axios library to use a simplified promise-based approach within our project. Let's install it by typing the following in our Terminal:

# Install Axios to our project
$ npm install axios --save

We now have the ability to create HTTP requests; we just need an API to point Axios towards. Let's create a mock API.

Installing JSON server

In order to create a mock API, we can use the json-serverlibrary. This allows us to get up-and-running globally quickly by just creating adb.jsonfile inside of our project. It effectively creates a GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE API and stores the data in a file, appended to our original...