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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

Exploring the RouterView element

RouterView is a Vue component whose job is to do the following:

  • Render different child components
  • Mount and unmount itself automatically at any nesting level, depending on the route’s given path

Without RouterView, it is almost impossible to render dynamic content correctly for users at runtime. For example, when a user navigates to the Home page, RouterView knows and only generates the content related to that page.

Let’s see how we can pass props to the view through RouterView.

Passing props to view

Since RouterView is a component, it can also receive props. The only prop it receives is name, which is the same name registered in the corresponding route’s record defined in the router object at the initialization phase.

The Vue engine automatically passes any other additional HTML attributes to any view component that RouterView renders.

Take the following RouterView component with a "main-app...