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Vue CLI 3 Quick Start Guide

By : Ajdin Imsirovic
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Vue CLI 3 Quick Start Guide

By: Ajdin Imsirovic

Overview of this book

The sprawling landscape of various tools in JavaScript web development is becoming overwhelming. This book will show you how Vue CLI 3 can help you take back control of the tool chain. To that end, we'll begin by configuring webpack, utilizing HMR, and using single-file .vue components. We'll also use SCSS, ECMAScript, and TypeScript. We'll unit test with Jest and perform E2E testing with Cypress. This book will show you how to configure Vue CLI as your default way of building Vue projects. You'll discover the reasons behind using webpack, babel, eslint, and other modern JavaScript toolchain technologies. You'll learn about the inner workings of each through the lens of Vue CLI 3. We'll explore the extendibility of Vue CLI with the built-in settings, and various core and third-party plugins. Vue CLI helps you work with Vue components, routers, directives, and services in the Vue ecosystem. While learning these concepts, you'll examine the evolution of JavaScript. You'll learn about use of npm, IIFEs, modules in JavaScript, Common.js modules, task runners, npm scripts, module bundlers, and webpack. You'll get familiar with the reasons why Vue CLI 3 is set up the way it is. You'll also learn to perform linting with ESLint and Prettier. Towards the end, we'll introduce you to working with styles and SCSS. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy your very own Vue project on Github Pages.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Adding a new Vue project with vue-router and vuex

Let's begin by creating a new folder in our file system. Let's call this folder vueclichapter5.

  1. Open the vueclichapter5 folder from Windows Explorer, right-click anywhere on the whitespace inside the vueclichapter5 folder, and click on the Git Bash here command.
  1. Once Git Bash opens, type code . and press the Enter key. This will open a brand-new instance of VS Code, with no files or tabs inside other than the welcome tab.
  2. Next, we'll be adding a new Vue project right from VS Code's integrated Terminal. To access this Terminal, click on the VS Code window (to get it in focus), and press the following shortcut key: Ctrl + `.
We've already mentioned the Ctrl backtick shortcut earlier in the book. As a reminder, the ` character can be found when you press the key above the Tab key on your keyboard.

Using...