Learning Vue

Preface

The JavaScript framework plays a significant role in modern web frontend development. When developing web projects, companies choose a framework for various reasons, including the quality of the final product, the cost of development, coding standard, and ease of development. Hence, learning to work with a JavaScript framework, such as Vue, is essential for any modern web developer (or frontend developer or full stack developer).

This book is for programmers who want to learn and develop Web applications using Vue library, in JavaScript and TypeScript, from end to end. It focuses solely on how Vue and its ecosystem can help you build scalable and interactive web applications in the most straightforward and comfortable direction. While covering the basics, we will also get into Vue Router and Pinia for state management, testing, animation, deployment, and server-side rendering, making sure you are ready to move on and start developing complex Vue projects right away.

It’s OK if you are not familiar with Vue or the concept of Virtual DOM. This book doesn’t assume any prior knowledge of Vue or any similar framework. I will introduce and guide you through all Vue’s basics from scratch. I will also walk you through the Virtual DOM concept and reactivity system in Vue in Chapter 2, as the foundation for the rest of the book.

This book doesn’t require you to know TypeScript, though you will be better prepared if you are familiar with TypeScript basics. You will also be better ...