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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)

Creating the admin frontend

Now that we have the backend app done, we can move on to working on the frontend. Since we have already created the Vue 3 project earlier for the admin frontend in the admin-frontend folder, we just have to install packages that we need and then work on the code. We need the graphql-request GraphQL package and the GraphQL client library, and the VeeValidate, Vue Router, Axios, and Yup packages.

To install them, we run the following command in the admin-frontend folder:

npm i vee-validate@next vue-router@4 yup graphql graphql-request

After installing the packages, we can start working on the code.

Working with components

First, we start working on the components. In the components folder, we add the TopBar component into the components/TopBar.vue file to hold the route links and the Log Out button by writing the following code:

<template>
  <p>
    <router-link to="/orders">Orders...