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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

Building our apps for production

Deploying applications to production starts with creating an artifact that can be deployed. In the case of Vue.js, we’re building a client-side application, which means our build artifact will contain HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files.

A Vue project scaffolded with Vite will have a build command. As part of the build process, Vite will take JavaScript, Vue single-file components, and modules that are imported into each other and bundle them. Bundling means that related chunks of code that depend on each other will be output as a single JavaScript file.

The Vue CLI build step also includes a dead code elimination step. This means that it can analyze the code being generated and if any of it is never used – for example, a statement such as if (false) { /* do something */} – then it will not be present in the build output.

By default, the Vite builds for production when we call vite build, which, in Vue projects, is aliased...