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Front-End Development Projects with Vue.js

By : Raymond Camden, Hugo Di Francesco, Clifford Gurney, Philip Kirkbride, Maya Shavin
Book Image

Front-End Development Projects with Vue.js

By: Raymond Camden, Hugo Di Francesco, Clifford Gurney, Philip Kirkbride, Maya Shavin

Overview of this book

Are you looking to use Vue 2 for web applications, but don't know where to begin? Front-End Development Projects with Vue.js will help build your development toolkit and get ready to tackle real-world web projects. You'll get to grips with the core concepts of this JavaScript framework with practical examples and activities. Through the use-cases in this book, you'll discover how to handle data in Vue components, define communication interfaces between components, and handle static and dynamic routing to control application flow. You'll get to grips with Vue CLI and Vue DevTools, and learn how to handle transition and animation effects to create an engaging user experience. In chapters on testing and deploying to the web, you'll gain the skills to start working like an experienced Vue developer and build professional apps that can be used by other people. You'll work on realistic projects that are presented as bitesize exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. These mini projects include a chat interface, a shopping cart and price calculator, a to-do app, and a profile card generator for storing contact details. By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence to handle any web development project and tackle real-world front-end development problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface

Angular versus Vue

Angular is a Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) framework built by Google that, generally, enterprise companies in the past tended to favor because of Google's backing and the fact that from the ground up, Angular was created to be used alongside TypeScript. The ecosystem supporting Angular includes Ahead of Time (AoT) rendering, and router and CLI management, but fails to deliver a simplified global state management system; developers would need to learn and use Flux or adopt NgRx. Vue takes Angular's core ideas of robustness and reliability and improves the development experience with its agnostic approach to development by removing the restrictiveness of an enforced code style for developers. Simplifying familiar Angular patterns such as HTML directives and dependency injection for modularity with Vue's single-file component system benefits developers by removing the necessity to learn and remember a variety of structures (injectables, components, pipes, modules, and so on). Vue has excellent support for TypeScript and typing without the drawbacks that Angular can have with its enforced coding language and development style. React and Vue share a focus on component-driven development, which reduces the amount of time and effort needed to uptake a new framework.