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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

Understanding routing

Routing is one of the most essential and primary parts of building dynamic web applications. You may be familiar with the word in its everyday context. It is the process of getting a user to their desired location. Users who enter website.com/about into their URL bar will be redirected to the About page.

In web development, routing is the matching mechanism by which we decide how to connect HTTP requests to the code that handles them. We use routing whenever there is a need for URL navigation in our application. Most modern web applications contain a lot of different URLs, even single-page ones.

Thus, routing creates a navigation system and helps users quickly move around our application and the web. With Single-Page Applications (SPAs), routing allows you to smoothly navigate within an application without the need for page refreshing.

In short, routing is a way for an application to interpret what resource users want based on the URL provided. It is...