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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 API endpoints with Laravel

The first step to create our chat app is to create a backend app with Laravel. Creating the API with Laravel is the main thing that we have to learn for this chapter. This is something that we have not done before. It also means that we have to write code in PHP since Laravel is a PHP-based web framework. Therefore, you should learn some basic PHP syntaxes before reading this code. Like JavaScript and other object-oriented languages, they share similar concepts such as using objects, arrays, dictionaries, loops, classes, and other basic object-oriented programming concepts. Therefore, it should not be too different from JavaScript in terms of difficulty of learning.

Installing the required libraries

To create our API with Laravel, we don't have to create all the files ourselves, we just have to run a few commands and that will create all the files and configuration settings for us automatically. Before we create our API, we have to...