Vue.js is the latest trending frontend framework. Simplicity, reactivity, and flexibility are some of the key benefits that Vue offers to developers. This book will help you learn everything you need to know to build stunning reactive web apps with Vue.js 2 quickly and easily.
Build Vue apps the right way using Vue CLI 3. Understand how the building blocks of Vue CLI 3 work including npm, webpack, babel, eslint, plugins, GUI, testing, and SCSS. Import third-party libraries and maintain your project. Key FeaturesLearn to work with Vue CLI 3 both on the command line and with a GUIManage VueJS apps, settings, Vue plugins, and third-party libraries Learn how to build Vue apps from scratch using webpack, babel, ES6, vue-router, Jest, Cypress, SCSS, and GitBook Description The sprawling landscape of various tools in JavaScript web development is becoming overwhelming. This book will show you how Vue CLI 3 can help you take back control of the tool chain. To that end, we'll begin by configuring webpack, utilizing HMR, and using single-file .vue components. We'll also use SCSS, ECMAScript, and TypeScript. We'll unit test with Jest and perform E2E testing with Cypress. This book will show you how to configure Vue CLI as your default way of building Vue projects. You'll discover the reasons behind using webpack, babel, eslint, and other modern JavaScript toolchain technologies. You'll learn about the inner workings of each through the lens of Vue CLI 3. We'll explore the extendibility of Vue CLI with the built-in settings, and various core and third-party plugins. Vue CLI helps you work with Vue components, routers, directives, and services in the Vue ecosystem. While learning these concepts, you'll examine the evolution of JavaScript. You'll learn about use of npm, IIFEs, modules in JavaScript, Common.js modules, task runners, npm scripts, module bundlers, and webpack. You'll get familiar with the reasons why Vue CLI 3 is set up the way it is. You'll also learn to perform linting with ESLint and Prettier. Towards the end, we'll introduce you to working with styles and SCSS. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy your very own Vue project on Github Pages. What you will learnWork with nvm, install Node.js and npm, use Vue CLI 3 with no configuration, via the command line and the graphical user interfaceBuild a Vue project from scratch using npm and webpack, and learn about hot module replacementWork with Babel settings, configurations, and presetsWork with Vue plugins, including testing plugins such as Jest and CypressWrite, run, and watch unit and E2E tests using TDD assertions in the red-green-refactor cycleWork with Vue router and use, nested, lazy-loading, and dynamic routesAdd SCSS to your projects and work with third-party Vue pluginsDeploy your Vue apps to Github PagesWho this book is for This book is for existing web developers and developers who are new to web development. You must be familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript programming. Basic knowledge of the command line will be helpful but is not necessary.
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.
State management preserves the state of controls in an user interface. Vuex is a state management tool for Vue.js that makes the architecture easier to understand, maintain and evolve. This book is the easiest way to get started with Vuex to improve your Vue.js application architecture and overall user experience.
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
Arm yourself with over 65 hands-on recipes to master the skills of building scalable web applications with Ember.js About This Book This book is your one-stop solution to the key features of Ember.js. Become skilled in the art of building web-apps in a fraction of the code you'd write in other frameworks. Build JavaScript apps that don't break the web! Our 100 recipes will make this a cakewalk for you! This books makes learning Ember.js easy by breaking down each topic into simple-to-understand recipes Who This Book Is For Anyone who wants to explore Ember.js and wishes to get hands on making sophisticated web apps with less coding will find this book handy. Prior experience in Coding and familiarity with JavaScript is recommended. If you've heard of Ember.js or are just curious on how a single-page application framework works, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn Skip the boilerplate code with Ember CLI generators Create a component with actions and events Set up a model with Ember Data using fixture data Create several different types of test cases and run them Manage and set up user authentication using Ember Simple Auth Add animated transitions to your app with Liquid Fire Set up a service and initializer with dependency injection Create a working chat application Set up an Ember Service and initializer with dependency injection Create a working chat application In Detail Ember.js is an open source JavaScript framework that will make you more productive. It uses common idioms and practices, making it simple to create amazing single-page applications. It also lets you create code in a modular way using the latest JavaScript features. Not only that, it has a great set of APIs to get any task done. The Ember.js community is welcoming newcomers and is ready to help you when needed. This book provides in-depth explanations on how to use the Ember.js framework to take you from beginner to expert. You'll start with some basic topics and by the end of the book, you'll know everything you need to know to build a fully operational Ember application. We'll begin by explaining key points on how to use the Ember.js framework and the associated tools. You'll learn how to effectively use Ember CLI and how to create and deploy your application. We'll take a close look at the Ember object model and templates by examining bindings and observers. We'll then move onto Ember components, models, and Ember Data. We'll show you examples on how to connect to RESTful databases. Next we'll get to grips with testing with integration and acceptance tests using QUnit. We will conclude by covering authentication, services, and Ember add-ons. We'll explore advanced topics such as services and initializers, and how to use them together to build real-time applications. Style and approach Each recipe in this book will make it that much easier to understand Ember.js. Recipe after recipe, you will learn the concepts of Ember.js by following the simple step-by-step processes
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
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
Take your Bootstrap game to the next level with this practical guide About This Book Packed with easy-to-follow recipes on building responsive web pages with Bootstrap 4 that can be applied to a web project of your choice Build intuitive user interfaces that are mobile-ready with the latest features offered by BS4 Stay on top of the changes that Bootstrap 4 brings to front-end development Craft beautiful UIs and learn best practices, tips and tricks for quick, effortless, and proper Bootstrap 4 development Who This Book Is For If you are a web designer or a developer who is familiar with the basics of Bootstrap and now want to build highly responsive and professional web pages using Bootstrap 4, this cookbook is for you. Familiarity with the fundamentals of HTML, CSS and jQuery, and some experience of incorporating JavaScript plugins is assumed. What You Will Learn Craft beautiful UIs the right way Use jQuery and JavaScript to extend Bootstrap layouts Become more efficient by speeding up your workflow to achieve amazing results in the shortest time possible Setup your environment for future changes of the framework. Stay DRY by quickly prototyping Bootstrap-based websites with the help of Github's own serverless blogging platform, Jekyll Integrate Bootstrap with the most popular JS frameworks, Angular and React Combine Bootstrap with the .NET platform In Detail Bootstrap, one of the most popular front-end frameworks, is perfectly built to design elegant, powerful, and responsive interfaces for professional-level web pages. It supports responsive design by dynamically adjusting your web page layout. Bootstrap 4 is a major update with many impressive changes that greatly enhance the end results produced by Bootstrap. This cookbook is a collection of great recipes that show you how to use all the latest features of Bootstrap to build compelling UIs. This book is using the most up-to-date version of Bootstrap 4 in all its chapters. First off, you will be shown how you can leverage the latest core features of Bootstrap 4 to create stunning web pages and responsive media. You will gradually move on to extending Bootstrap 4 with the help of plugins to build highly customized and powerful UIs. By the end of this book, you will know how to leverage, extend, and integrate bootstrap to achieve optimal results for your web projects. Style and approach Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, the practical-based recipes will help you get the most from Bootstrap.
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.