Vue.js 2.x by Example: Example-driven guide to build web apps with Vue.js for beginners

Learn the fundamentals of vue.js by creating complex SPAs with Vuex, vue-router and more

Key Features

• We bridge the gap between “learning” and “doing” by providing real-world examples that will improve your web development skills with Vue.js
• Explore the exciting features of Vue.js 2 through practical and interesting examples
• Explore modern development tools and learn how to utilize them by building applications with Vue.js

Book Description

Vue.js is a frontend web framework which makes it easy to do just about anything, from displaying data up to creating full-blown web apps, and has become a leading tool for web developers. This book puts Vue.js into a real-world context, guiding you through example projects that helps you build Vue.js applications from scratch.

With this book, you will learn how to use Vue.js by creating three Single Page web applications. Throughout this book, we will cover the usage of Vue, for building web interfaces, Vuex, an official Vue plugin which makes caching and storing data easier, and Vue-router, a plugin for creating routes and URLs for your application.

Starting with a JSON dataset, the first part of the book covers Vue objects and how to utilize each one. This will be covered by exploring different ways of displaying data from a JSON dataset. We will then move on to manipulating the data with filters and search and creating dynamic values.

Next, you will see how easy it is to integrate remote data into an application by learning how to use the Dropbox API to display your Dropbox contents in an application

In the final section, you will see how to build a product catalog and dynamic shopping cart using the Vue-router, giving you the building blocks of an e-commerce store.

What you will learn

• Looping through data with Vue.js
• Searching and filtering data
• Using components to display data
• Getting a list of files using the dropbox API
• Navigating through a file tree and loading folders from a URL
• Caching with Vuex
• Pre-caching for faster navigation
• Introducing vue-router and loading components
• Using vue-router dynamic routes to load data
• Using vue-router and Vuex to create an ecommerce store

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who know the basics of JavaScript and are looking to learn Vue.js with real examples. You should understand the basics of JavaScript functions and variables and be comfortable with using CSS or a CSS framework for styling your projects.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting started with Vue.js
Chapter 2 Searching and filtering data
Chapter 3 Using components to display data
Chapter 4 Getting a list of files using the dropbox API
Chapter 5 Navigating through the file tree & loading folders from the URL
Chapter 6 Caching the current folder structure using Vuex
Chapter 7 Pre-caching other folders for faster navigation
Chapter 8 Introducing vue-router and loading URL based components
Chapter 9 Using vue-router dynamic routes to load data
Chapter 10 Building an ecommerce store – browsing products
Chapter 11 Building an ecommerce store – adding a checkout
Chapter 12 Testing your Vue app