September 2021
Beginner to intermediate
164 pages
2h 7m
English
Content preview from Jump Start Vue.js, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 1: Vue.js: The Basics
Since Facebook introduced React in 2013, component-based UI frameworks have become increasingly popular. They allow you to build your applications as collections of self-contained, reusable components that can manage their own state and can be declaratively composed into more complex interfaces.
The second generation of Google’s Angular framework is based around the component paradigm, and a number of smaller, light-weight libraries such as Hyperapp have cropped up in recent years.
Amidst this seemingly ever-growing collection of frameworks and libraries came Vue.js (referred to simply as Vue from here on). Released in 2014, Vue was created by a Google engineer called Evan You, who was inspired to create it after ...