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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

What Pinia is

Pinia (https://pinia.vuejs.org) is a state management library for Vue.js applications. As you saw in Chapter 9, The State of Vue State Management, handling data that must be synchronized between multiple different components requires some form of management. Pinia helps with this by providing a simple method of setting up a central store that contains your application’s state. Your components make use of this store to ensure they’re all using the same information.

Pinia began as an experiment for Vue 3 but evolved to support Vue 2 as well. Pinia is now the recommended state management library for Vue applications, with the venerable Vuex (https://vuex.vuejs.org/) now in maintenance mode:

Figure 10.1 – The Pinia website

Figure 10.1 – The Pinia website

Along with state management, using Pinia also provides other benefits, including the following:

  • Devtools support via the Vue extension. This extension supports Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. There...