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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to use PrimeVue effectively to build a vacation booking application. With PrimeVue, we can create good-looking Vue 3 web apps easily. PrimeVue comes with many useful components that we can add to create our web apps, such as inputs, text areas, tables, dialog boxes, date pickers, and more. It also comes with styles built-in, so we don't have to add any styles from scratch ourselves. Additionally, we can add the PrimeFlex package that is also provided by PrimeVue; with flexbox, we can change the spacing and positions of elements and components easily.

Vee-Validate and Yup allow us to add form validation into our Vue 3 app. This integrates easily with the input components provided by PrimeVue. These two libraries make a lot of the form validation work easy, as we don't have to write all the form validation code ourselves.

To make a simple backend, we used Express to create a simple API to interact with the frontend. We also used...