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Vue.js 3 By Example

By : John Au-Yeung
Book Image

Vue.js 3 By Example

By: John Au-Yeung

Overview of this book

With its huge ecosystem and wide adoption, Vue is one of the leading frameworks thanks to its ease of use when developing applications. However, it can get challenging for aspiring Vue.js developers to make sense of the ecosystem and build meaningful applications. This book will help you understand how you can leverage Vue effectively to develop impressive apps quickly using its latest version – Vue 3.0. The book takes an example-based approach to help you get to grips with the basics of Vue 3 and create a simple application by exploring features such as components and directives. You'll then enhance your app building skills by learning how to test the app with Jest and Vue Test Utils. As you advance, you'll understand how to write non-web apps with Vue 3, create cross-platform desktop apps with the Electron plugin, and build a multi-purpose mobile app with Vue and Ionic. You'll also be able to develop web apps with Vue 3 that interact well with GraphQL APIs. Finally, you'll build a chat app that performs real-time communication using Vue 3 and Laravel. By the end of this Vue.js book, you'll have developed the skills you need to build real-world apps using Vue 3 by working through a range of projects.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Setting up the Vue project with the Vue CLI and script tag

There are several ways to create Vue projects or to add script tags to our existing frontends. For prototyping or learning purposes, we can add the latest version of Vue 3 by adding the following code:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue@next"></script>

This will always include the latest version of Vue in our app. If we use it in production, we should include the version number to avoid unexpected changes from newer versions breaking our app. The version number can replace the next word if we want to specify the version.

We can also install Vue by installing it as a package. To do that, we can run the following command:

npm install vue@next

This will install the latest version of Vue in our JavaScript project.

If we created a Vue project from scratch with an older version of the Vue CLI, then we can use the CLI to generate all the files and install all the packages for us. This is the...