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Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js 3 - Second Edition

By : Maya Shavin, Raymond Camden, Clifford Gurney, Hugo Di Francesco
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Book Image

Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js 3 - Second Edition

5 (2)
By: Maya Shavin, Raymond Camden, Clifford Gurney, Hugo Di Francesco

Overview of this book

Are you looking to use Vue.js 3 for building web apps but don't know where to begin? Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js 3 will help you get to grips with the core concepts of this JavaScript framework using practical examples that simulate real-world web projects. With this updated edition, you’ll experience all aspects of the new and improved Vue.js 3 as you work on mini projects such as a chat interface, a shopping cart, a price calculator, a to-do app, and a profile card generator for storing contact details. These realistic projects are presented as bite-size exercises that you can enjoy even as you challenge yourself. Throughout the book, you'll discover how to manage data in Vue components, define communication interfaces between components, and handle static and dynamic routing to control application flow. You'll also work with Vite and Vue DevTools and learn how to handle transition and animation effects for an engaging user experience. Finally, you’ll see how to test your app and deploy it to the web. By the end of this Vue.js book, you'll have the skills that enable you to work like an experienced Vue developer to build professional apps that can be used by others and have the confidence to tackle real-world frontend web development problems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction and Crash Course
5
Part 2: Building Your First Vue App
11
Part 3: Global State Management
14
Part 4: Testing and Application Deployment

Examining transition routes

With the combination of the router-element component from Vue Router and the transition component, we can easily set up the transition effects when a user navigates from one URL (route) to another.

To give you a more fundamental understanding, we demonstrate in the following section an underlying case where a user redirects from the home page to the about page on a website.

To enable a transition across routing, with Vue Router 4.x and above, we need to combine the v-slot API with a dynamic component element. We use the v-slot attribute to pass and bind view Component of the current route to the is props of the component element nested under transition, as seen here:

<router-view v-slot="{ Component }">
  <transition :name="zoom">
    <component :is="Component" />
  </transition>
</router-view>

Here, we add a zoom transition effect when navigating...