Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects: Learn Vue.js by building 6 web apps

Key Features

• Build exciting real world web projects from scratch and become proficient with Vue.js Web Development
• Take your app to the next level with animation, routing, state management, server-side rendering and i18n
• Learn professional web programming techniques to supercharge your Vue.js projects

Book Description

Do you want to make your web application amazingly responsive? Are you unhappy with your app's performance and looking forward to trying out ways to make your app more powerful? Then Vue.js, a framework for building user interfaces, is a great choice, and this book is the ideal way to put it through its paces.

This book's project-based approach will get you to build six stunning applications from scratch and gain valuable insights in Vue.js 2.5. You'll start by learning the basics of Vue.js and create your first web app using directives along with rich and attractive user experiences. You will learn about animations and interactivity by creating a browser-based game. Using the available tools and preprocessor, you will learn how to create multi-page apps with plugins. You will create highly efficient and performant functional components for your app. Next, you will create your own online store and optimize it. Finally, you will integrate Vue.js with the real-time Meteor library and create a dashboard showing real-time data.

By the end of this book you will have enough skills and will have worked through enough examples of real Vue.js projects to create interactive professional web applications with Vue.js 2.5.

What you will learn

• Set up a full Vue.js npm project with the webpack build tool and the official scaffolding tool, vue-cli
• Write automatically updated templates with directives to create a dynamic web application
• Structure the app with reusable and maintainable components
• Create delightful user experiences with animations
• Use build tools and preprocessors to make larger professional applications
• Create a multi-page application with the official Vue.js routing library
• Integrate non-Vue.js elements into your apps like Google Maps
• Use the official state-management library to prevent errors
• Optimize your app for SEO and performance with server-side rendering and internationalization

About the Author

Guillaume Chau is the creator of integrations with Meteor (vue-meteor) and Apollo GraphQL (vue-apollo) to help developers build highly interactive, real-time, Vue-powered apps. He also created the official vue-curated app , which helps you to discover great packages, and he contributes to the ecosystem with tools such as vue-virtual-scroller and vue-supply. He built a customer portal app for a big energy company with large datasets and performance challenges and is now working with an innovative French start-up (WebRTC and real-time data).

Table of Contents

1. Getting started with Vue
2. Project 1: Markdown Notebook
3. Project 2: Castle Duel Browser Game
4. Advanced Project Setup
5. Project 3: Support Center
6. Project 4: Geolocated Blog
7. Project 5: Online Shop & Scaling Up
8. Project 6: Real-time Dashboard with Meteor