Get a brisk introduction to building fast, interactive single-page web applications with Vue.js, the popular JavaScript framework that organizes and simplifies web development. With this practical guide, you’ll quickly move from basics to custom components and advanced features—including JSX, the JavaScript syntax extension. Author Callum Macrae shows you how to use the most useful libraries in the Vue ecosystem, such as vue-router for routing, vuex for state management, and vue-test-utils for testing. If you’re a frontend developer familiar with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, this book will show you how to develop a fully featured web application using Vue. Learn Vue.js basics, including its use of templates to display data on a page Set up Vue projects from scratch, or use vue-cli to set up from a template Create a maintainable codebase by splitting code into self-contained components Discover how Vue.js works with CSS to style your websites and applications Use render functions and JSX, rather than templates, to determine what Vue displays Control how code is executed and displayed with vue-router Manage state in one centralized place with the Vuex library Write unit tests to ensure your Vue components don’t break in the future
"Vue.js is one of the most progressive open source JavaScript framework capable of building user interfaces and powering Single-Page Applications. Supported by other libraries and projects, Vue.js is focused on the view layer only. This course will act as a guide to help customers build robust web applications seamlessly. Start with the fundamentals of this powerful framework and explore all about modern apps and their requirements. Leverage Vue.js tools to build highly scalable and fast apps. Use this guide, to setup and build simple components and understand how to use events to communicate between components. Get to grips with SPA building blocks like templates, events, forms, and components. This guide is very practical in its approach and will require relatable ideologies to help them understand the concepts that are being taught."--Resource description page.
Summary Testing Vue.js Applications is a comprehensive guide to testing Vue components, methods, events, and output. Author Edd Yerburgh, creator of the Vue testing utility, explains the best testing practices in Vue along with an evergreen methodology that applies to any web dev process. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Web developers who use the Vue framework love its reliability, speed, small footprint, and versatility. Vue's component-based approach and use of DOM methods require you to adapt your app-testing practices. Learning Vue-specific testing tools and strategies will ensure your apps run like they should. About the Book With Testing Vue.js Applications, you'll discover effective testing methods for Vue applications. You'll enjoy author Edd Yerburgh's engaging style and fun real-world examples as you learn to use the Jest framework to run tests for a Hacker News application built with Vue, Vuex, and Vue Router. This comprehensive guide teaches the best testing practices in Vue along with an evergreen methodology that applies to any web dev process. What's inside Unit tests, snapshot tests, and end-to-end tests Writing unit tests for Vue components Writing tests for Vue mixins, Vuex, and Vue Router Advanced testing techniques, like mocking About the Reader Written for Vue developers at any level. About the Author Edd Yerburgh is a JavaScript developer and Vue core team member. He's the main author of the Vue Test Utils library and is passionate about open source tooling for testing component-based applications. Table of Contents Introduction to testing Vue applications Creating your first test Testing rendered component output Testing component methods Testing events Understanding Vuex Testing Vuex Organizing tests with factory functions Understanding Vue Router Testing Vue Router Testing mixins and filters Writing snapshot tests Testing server-side rendering Writing end-to-end tests APPENDIXES A - Setting up your environment B - Running the production build C - Exercise answers
Explore the new features of Vue.js 3 and discover best practices for building fault-tolerant and professional frontend web applications Key FeaturesMigrate your apps from Vue.js 2 to Vue.js 3 with the help of practical recipesExplore the latest Vue.js 3 features such as reactivity API, composition API, and TypeScript supportExtend the capabilities and performance of Vue.js apps with Quasar, Vuetify, and Nuxt.js frameworksBook Description Vue.js is a progressive web framework for building professional user interfaces for your web applications. With Vue.js 3, the frontend framework is reinforced with architectural enhancements, new base languages, new render processes, and separated core components. The book starts with recipes for implementing Vue.js 3’s new features in your web development projects and migrating your existing Vue.js apps to the latest version. You will get up and running with TypeScript with Vue.js and find succinct solutions to common challenges and pitfalls faced in implementing components, derivatives, and animation, through to building plugins, adding state management, routing, and developing complete single-page applications (SPAs). As you advance, you'll discover recipes to help you integrate Vue.js apps with Nuxt.js in order to add server-side rendering capabilities to your SPAs. You'll then learn about the Vue.js ecosystem by exploring modern frameworks such as Quasar, Nuxt.js, Vuex, and Vuetify in your web projects. Finally, the book provides you with solutions for packaging and deploying your Vue.js apps. By the end of this Vue.js book, you'll be able to identify and solve challenges faced in building Vue.js applications and be able to adopt the Vue.js framework for frontend web projects of any scale. What you will learnDesign and develop large-scale web applications using Vue.js 3’s latest features Create impressive UI layouts and pages using Vuetify, Buefy, and Ant DesignExtend your Vue.js applications with dynamic form and custom rules validationAdd state management, routing, and navigation to your web appsExtend Vue.js apps to the server-side with Nuxt.jsDiscover effective techniques to deploy your web applications with NetlifyDevelop web applications, mobile applications, and desktop applications with a single code base using the Quasar frameworkWho this book is for The book is for both new and experienced Vue.js developers looking to overcome challenges in building dynamic web applications with Vue.js 3. Knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript is assumed. A basic understanding of Vue.js will help you to make the most of this book.
Summary Web pages are rich with data and graphics, and it's challenging to maintain a smooth and quick user experience. Vue.js in Action teaches you how to build a fast, flowing web UI with the Vue.js framework. As you move through the book, you'll put your skills to practice by building a complete web store application with product listings, a checkout process, and an administrative interface. About the technology Vue.js is a lightweight frontend framework, offering easy two-way data binding, a reactive UI, and a common-sense project structure. It uses UI patterns and modern HTML to deliver impossibly fast page loads and silky smooth transitions—all from a tiny code footprint. It’s a delight to develop in Vue using ordinary JavaScript and its integrated Vuex state management tool. About the book Vue.js in Action is your guide to building modern web apps. You’ll start by exploring the reactive UI model while you get comfortable with Vue’s unique features. Then, you’ll go deeper as you build a shopping cart with an admin interface and the ability to manage stock! Finally, you’ll extend your app, adding transitions, tests, and other key features until it’s production ready. What's inside Clearly annotated code and illustrations Modeling data and consuming APIs Easy state management with Vuex Creating custom directives About the reader Written for web developers with some experience in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. About the author Erik Hanchett and Benjamin Listwon are experienced web engineers and fearless explorers of new ideas. Vue.js is a front-end framework that builds on many of the reactive UI ideas introduced in React.js. Vue.js in Action teaches readers to build fast, flowing web UI with the Vue.js framework. As they move through the book, readers put their skills to practice by building a complete web store application with product listings, a checkout process, and an administrative interface! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
Ready to Master Vue.js? What if you could master the entire framework - with solid foundations - in less time without beating your head against a wall? Imagine how quickly you could work if you knew the best practices and the best tools? Stop wasting your time searching and have everything you need to be productive in one, well-organized place, with complete examples to get your project up without needing to resort to endless hours of research. Lots of Sample Apps and Code You will learn what you need to know to work professionally with Fullstack Vue: The Complete Guide to Vue.js You'll build: A Server-Persisted Shopping Cart Use the Flux-like library Vuex to manage data for a large shopping cart application that persists information on to a local server. A Calendar Event App Dive deeper into component based architecture by learning how simple state management works with Vue Single-file components. A Voting Application Learn how to render dynamic components and use standard Vue directives to build an interactive voting application. Forms with Validations Build powerful forms that accept user input, and give clear messaging when the input is of an invalid format. Vuex-based Routes and Authentication Build on top of the server persisted shopping cart app by creating dynamic routes and a token authentication flow with the official vue-router library. Build bullet-proof apps with Testing Use Vue's official test utility library, vue-test-utils, to create meaningful tests for a daily weather app that interacts with a third party API. What our Customers Say "Another must read from the team! Going through the book's real-world apps is like growing your dev superpowers one concept at a time." -- Luis Fernando Saavedra Meza "Providing code variations for every step along the way has been really helpful, by showing how the end result should look and making it easier for me to reproduce it!" -- Marina Landisberg "Hands up to Hassan for this masterpiece. In ready to follow steps and concise manner, you'll guided to master the framework of the future piece by piece. This book will make you love the frontend again and overcome the Javascript fatigue. Great job!" -- Christoph Jasinksi
Since its release in 2014, Vue.js has seen a meteoric rise to popularity and is is now considered one of the primary front-end frameworks, and not without good reason. Its component-based architecture was designed to be flexible and easy to adopt, making it just as easy to integrate into projects and use alongside non-Vue code as it is to build complex client-side applications. If you're an experienced developer looking to make a start with Vue, this book is for you. It provides a rapid introduction to the key topics that you'll need to understand. It contains: Getting up and Running with the Vue.js 2.0 Framework by Jack Franklin Getting Started with Vuex: a Beginner's Guide by Michael Wanyoike A Beginner's Guide to Vue CLI by Ahmed Bouchefra A Beginner's Guide to Working With Components in Vue by Kingsley Silas A Beginner's Guide to Working with Forms in Vue by Kingsley Silas How to Conditionally Apply a CSS Class in Vue.js by Chad Campbell How to Replace jQuery with Vue by Nilson Jacques Nuxt.js: a Minimalist Framework for Creating Universal Vue.js Apps by Olayinka Omole Optimize the Performance of a Vue App with Async Components by Michiel Mulders
Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily with Vue.js About This Book Learn how to propagate DOM changes across the website without writing extensive jQuery callbacks code. Learn how to achieve reactivity and easily compose views with Vue.js and understand what it does behind the scenes. Explore the core features of Vue.js with small examples, learn how to build dynamic content into preexisting web applications, and build Vue.js applications from scratch. Who This Book Is For This book is perfect for novice web developer seeking to learn new technologies or frameworks and also for webdev gurus eager to enrich their experience. Whatever your level of expertise, this book is a great introduction to the wonderful world of reactive web apps. What You Will Learn Build a fully functioning reactive web application in Vue.js from scratch. The importance of the MVVM architecture and how Vue.js compares with other frameworks such as Angular.js and React.js. How to bring reactivity to an existing static application using Vue.js. How to use plugins to enrich your applications. How to develop customized plugins to meet your needs. How to use Vuex to manage global application's state. In Detail Vue.js is one of the latest new frameworks to have piqued the interest of web developers due to its reactivity, reusable components, and ease of use. This book shows developers how to leverage its features to build high-performing, reactive web interfaces with Vue.js. From the initial structuring to full deployment, this book provides step-by-step guidance to developing an interactive web interface from scratch with Vue.js. You will start by building a simple application in Vue.js which will let you observe its features in action. Delving into more complex concepts, you will learn about reactive data binding, reusable components, plugins, filters, and state management with Vuex. This book will also teach you how to bring reactivity to an existing static application using Vue.js. By the time you finish this book you will have built, tested, and deployed a complete reactive application in Vue.js from scratch. Style and approach This book is a thorough, step-by-step guide showing readers how to build complete web apps with Vue.js. While teaching its intricacies, this book shows how to implement the MVVM architecture in the real world and build high-performing web interfaces.
A journey starts from zero understanding to dev ready in Vue.js Key features Learner can learn the concepts such as how Vue.js works in the real world with reusable items like components, plugins, mixins, and so on. Efficient and different ways of writing the template codes like using HTML, using .vue files, and so on. Along with several basics, we have emphasized the concepts which are the real implementation as per industry standard. We have started with the basics of Vue.js and progressed through the basic elements. So that the reader will get a fair idea of it. Description Vue.js is one of the quickly growing Javascript frameworks, which can be used in any scale of the project to help the stakeholders in rapid application development process. The good thing with Vue.js is that it is lightweight and can also be integrated with the existing project. It saves the development time and also enables managed HTML interface using Javascript.When you have this book in your hand, it will keep shaping your understanding in Vue.js as you move forward chapter by chapter. On the first day, you will get your basic questions answered like what is Vue.js, history and it's underlying concepts. Moreover, it will take you through basic environment setup and running your first app using Bue.js. By this time, the reader must have gained a fair knowledge on Vue.js.With the concepts you grasped in the first chapter, the chapters ahead are designed according to your understanding so that you get started with basic structuring of html pages using Vue.js and end up with a pro coder as you see advance concepts illustrated very neatly. At the seventh day, you will learn essential concepts of modern day web development like Routing, State Management and Single Page Application concepts that will enable you to start thinking Vue.js as an ingredient form you production appsLast, but not least, the book presents an appendix for a comparative view of Vue.js framework with similar JS framework. What will you learn This book would help the reader to acquire the knowledge on the Javascript framework like Vue.js. Starting from novice to the advanced level, this book wants to enlighten the understanding of Vue.js, its usability into real life projects. The initial chapter starts with a basic introduction of the framework and setup, followed up by the syntax of the framework to build basic html pages. Gradually, in the chapter ahead, readers can explore the framework concepts like components, templates, watchers, plugins and routing etc. to build high-end production ready. Finally you will definitely get insights of state management techniques with SPA implemented using the framework form building responsive and interactive web applications. Who this book is forThe reader should have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and Javascript which are the basic building blocks of web developement. That means if you are a Web Developer who is logging behind the race due to no JavaScript framework experience, then you have landed on the correct book to learn from basics to advanced concepts to become a pro. Table of content1. Day 1: Introduction Before I start with Vue.js Let's setup Vue.js Let's Put Vue in action Vue Dev Tools Vue CLI Summary2. Day 2: Rendering with HTML Basic HTML structuring with Vue Conditions and loop structures Form elements and basic event handling Summary3. Day 3: Computed property Greeting to the user Computed properties vs methods Watched property Summary4. Day 4: Components What is component Template string looks odd!!! Passing properties to the component Registering the component Data passing between components Summary5. Day 5: Components in depth Diving in the props Slots Summary6. Day 6: Distribute reusable functionality Mixins Custom directives Filters Plugin Summary7. Day 7: Single page application What is route State Management Summary8. Appendix Render functions JSX Comparing Vue SummaryAbout the authorNirmal Hota is a software developer and mentor. He loves to learn and work in different technologies. He has worked in various Microsoft Technologies such as C#, VB, ASP.net, Dynamics CRM, Commerce server and so on. Also worth mentioning his expertise in open source and mobile application technologies like Ruby on Rails, Phonegap, Titanium, Xamarin and so on. He loves to explore different Javascript based platforms including Angular, React and Vue.He is also a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Asp.Net and Dynamics CRM. In addition to that, he has also a Titanium Certified Application Developer (TCAD) and an Agile Scrum Master too.His Blog link: http://nirmalhota.com/His LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirmalhota/ Tadit Dash is a software engineer by profession.As a software engineer, he usually works for eight to nine hours daily. Besides his daily work, he contributes to both online and offline communities. He co-founded the first Technical Community in his state named Utkal Techies Forum Odisha, which is devoted to spreading awareness of the newest trends in technology among techies.He writes articles and blogs, and creates demos and videos for fellow programmers. Answering questions on online forums and social channels is the activity he enjoys the most.Due to his exceptional contribution to the technical community, Microsoft has awarded him with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional accolade from 2014 till 2018. CodeProject has awarded him the CodeProject MVP accolade (the first from Odisha and three times in a row for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016). For his constant mentorship, IndiaMentor featured him as a Young Mentor on their site.You can reach him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @taditdash.His Website link: http://taditdash.co.in/His Blog link: http://blog.taditdash.co.in/ and https://taditdash.wordpress.com/His LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taditdash/ Dr. Vishal Jain is currently working as Associate Professor with Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi Affiliated to GGSIPU and Accredited by AICTE, since July, 2017 to till date. He has joined BVICAM, New Delhi in year 2010 and worked as Assistant Professor from August, 2010 to July, 2017. Before joined BVICAM, New Delhi.His Blog link: http://www.vishaljain.webs.com/His LinkedIn Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/vishaljain83
Learn how to render lists of items without repeating your code structure and how to work with conditional rendering items and event handling. Containing all you need to know to get started with Vue.js, this book will take you through using build tools (transpile to ES5), creating custom components, state management, and routers. With Getting to Know Vue.js, you'll see how to combine reusable code with custom components, allowing you to create snippets of reusable code to suit your specific business needs. You'll also explore how to use Single File Components and the Vue.js Command Line Interface (CLI) to build components in a single file and add in build tools as you see fit. Getting started with a new Single Page Application (SPA) JavaScript framework can be an overwhelming task, but Vue.js makes this daunting task simple and easy to learn, allowing you to start implementing business needs with just a script reference to the library and the custom JavaScript required for your use case. Starting with a little reference and a handful of lines of custom JavaScript, you will have a complete Single Page Application before you know it. What You'll Learn Examine Vue.js templating syntax Work with binding methods Manage the state of your app by comparing your options of building a data store Adapt the more robust options compatible with Vue.js Review different router options, including creating your own router, using the Vue-router and using Page.js. Who This Book Is For Software developers with an understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript; prior understanding of a Single Page Application framework would be useful but not essential.