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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

Introduction

So far, the stores we have worked on have been simple and short. But, as everyone knows, even the simplest of applications tend toward complexity over time. As you have learned in the previous chapters, your store can contain a state, a block of getters, a block of mutations and actions, and as you will learn later in this chapter, modules.

As your application grows, having one file for your Vuex store could become hard to manage. Both bug fixing and updates for new functionality could become more difficult. This chapter will discuss two different ways to help manage this complexity and organize your Vuex stores. To be clear, these are optional things you can do to help manage your store. If your store is simple and you would like to keep it that way, that is fine. You can always use these approaches in the future, and the great thing is that no-one outside your store will need to be aware – they will continue to use Vuex data as they did before. You can...