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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

Plugins

Vue.js plugins are a way to add custom functionality to Vue.js globally. Good candidates for plugins are core to the application and used widely. Classic examples of plugin candidates are translation/internationalization libraries (such as i18n-next) and HTTP clients (such as the axios, fetch, and GraphQL clients). The plugin initializer has access to the Vue instance, so it can be a good way to wrap global directive, mixin, component, and filter definitions.

Plugins can inject functionality by registering directives and filters. They can also add global and instance Vue.js methods, as well as defining global component mixins.

A Vue.js plugin is an object that exposes an install method. The install function is called with Vue and options:

const plugin = {
  install(Vue, options) {}
}

Within the install method, we can register directives, filters, and mixins and add global and instance properties and methods:

const plugin = {
  install...