Chapter 2: Vue Tooling

Like the other established frameworks out there, a collection of tooling has sprung up around Vue. By tooling, I’m referring to software whose job is to facilitate the development of applications (such as code generation), prepare it for release or deployment (for example, compilation and packaging), or facilitate debugging when the inevitable bugs creep in.

In this chapter, I’d like to focus on the latter two of these categories—build tooling, and debugging. Both are well served by official Vue tools, which we’ll be taking a look at.

Why Use Build Tooling?

While including Vue from a CDN can be a good option when you’re just starting out, or when you’re whipping up a quick proof-of-concept app, we’ll want to introduce ...

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