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Vue.js 3 By Example

By : John Au-Yeung
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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)

Vue 3 core features – components and built-in directives

Now that we have created a basic Vue app with a Vue instance, we can look more closely at how to make it do more. Vue 3 is a component-based framework. Therefore, components are the core building blocks that are used to build full production - quality Vue 3 apps. Components are parts that can be combined to form a full app and are reusable. Vue 3 components have several parts, which include the template, the component option object, and the styles. The styles are the CSS styles that we apply to the rendered elements. The template is what is rendered on the browser's screen. It contains HTML code combined with JavaScript expressions to form the content that's rendered in the browser.

Templates get their data from the corresponding component option object. Also, the component templates can have directives that control how content is rendered and how to bind data from the template to a reactive property.

Components...