Learning Vue.js 2: Learn how to build amazing reactive web applications easily with Vue.js - Softcover

Filipova, Olga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786469944 ISBN 13: 9781786469946

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily with Vue.js

Key Features

• 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.

Book Description

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.

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.

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.

About this title

About the Author

Olga Filipova was born in Kyiv, in Ukraine. She grew up in a family of physicists, scientists, and professors. She studied system analysis in the National University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. At the age of 20, she moved to Portugal, where she did her bachelors' and masters' degrees in computer science from the University of Coimbra. During her studies, she participated in the research and development of European projects and became an assistant teacher of operating systems and computer graphics subjects. After obtaining her masters' degree, she started working at Feedzai. At that time, it was a small team of four, starting the development of a product from scratch, and now, it is one of the most successful Portuguese startups. At some point, her main responsibility became to develop a library written in JavaScript whose purpose was to bring data from the engine to the web interface. This marked Olga's main direction in tech: web development. At the same time, she continued her teaching practice, giving a course of professional web development to the local professional education center in Coimbra. In 2013, along with her brother and her husband, she started an educational project based in Ukraine. This project's name is EdEra and it has grown up from a small platform of online courses into a big player at the Ukrainian educational system scene. Currently, EdEra is moving towards an international direction and preparing an awesome online course about IT. Don't miss it! In 2014, Olga, with her husband and daughter, moved from Portugal to Berlin, where she started working at Meetrics as a frontend engineer and, after a year, became the team lead of an amazing team of frontend software developers. Currently Olga works in a fintech company called OptioPay as a lead frontend engineer. Olga is happily married to an awesome guy called Rui, who is also a software engineer. Rui studied with Olga at the university of Coimbra and worked with her at Feedzai. Olga has a smart and beautiful daughter, Taissa, a fluffy cat, Patusca, and two fluffiest chinchillas, Barabashka and Cheburashka.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1786469944
• ISBN 13: 9781786469946
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 334