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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

Using Vue.js Components without a .vue Single-File Component

Most of the examples we have seen of Vue.js components have leveraged .vue single-file components.

This is not the only way to define a Vue.js component. In this section, we will look at four different ways to define Vue.js components without using a .vue file.

Evaluating these options will help us understand what a Vue.js component is at its core.

Runtime Definition with a String Template

A component can use a template property that accepts a string value. This is commonly called a string template. This template is evaluated at runtime (in the browser).

We can define a component in the StringTemplate.js file by defining an object with a template property:

export default {
  template: `<div>String Template Component</div>`
}

This can then be consumed from the App.vue file, as follows:

<template>
  <div id="app">
    ...