Vue.js: Up and Running: Building Accessible and Performant Web Apps

by Callum Macrae

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 pageSet up Vue projects from scratch, or use vue-cli to set up from a templateCreate a maintainable codebase by splitting code into self-contained componentsDiscover how Vue.js works with CSS to style your websites and applicationsUse render functions and JSX, rather than templates, to determine what Vue displaysControl how code is executed and displayed with vue-routerManage state in one centralized place with the Vuex libraryWrite unit tests to ensure your Vue components don’t break in the future

Genres: Programming, Technology, Web

277 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 23, 2018

Reviews

[Lojza Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro to vue.js. What I miss in this book is one sample application that goes from the beginning to the end of the book. The examples in this book are just small pieces of codes, not related to each other.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

The clearest introduction to Vue.js that I've found.

There are a few small typos in the text and code snippets; keep O'Reilly's Errata page handy as you read the book.

The book doesn't do much to walk you through running the code on your own. On the plus side, this keeps the book concise and brief, which I take to be a goal of the "Up and Running" series. And actually having to do a little bit of work to get code snippets running locally helped solidify my understanding of the development environment and common Vue.js project structure.

But on the down side, I think this makes the book less useful for less experienced developers, and for developers that do not already possess a certain level of familiarity with modern Javascript and its ecosystem.

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

El autor del libro se tomó muy enserio la parte de 'running' del título, algunos ejemplos fueron muy claros, pero todo estuvo muy acelerado y muy por encima.

Por ser un libro con ganancias a la editorial uno creería que tendría mas profundidad o intención didáctica que la documentación oficial del framework, pero en esto quedaron debiendo bastante.

Si estás interesado en saber como funciona a grandes rasgos Vue igual puede servirte, pero no lo recomiendo.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started this months ago and for some reason never finished the last chapter until now -- I figured I might as well finish before I get too far into the book on testing Vue.

Overall, I thought this was a good intro to Vue.Js, although I agree with the other reviewer who suggested it would have been helpful to have a single project that is followed through all the examples.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of the examples still work. It’s definitely a great introduction to Vue.js.

[Hardi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid intro to Vue, but the title is a bit misleading. There was next to nothing here about accessibility or performance.