Learn the core concepts of Vue.js, the modern JavaScript framework for building frontend applications and interfaces from scratch. Through concise, practical, and clear examples, this book takes web developers step-by-step through the tools and libraries in the Vue.js ecosystem and how to use them to create complete applications for real-world web projects.
Author Maya Shavin explains how to create a complete application development process using a variety of tools in the Vue.js library. You'll learn how to handle data communication between components with Pinia architecture, develop a manageable routing system for a frontend project to control the application flow, and produce basic animation effects to create a better user experience.
This book also shows you how to:
- Create reusable and lightweight component systems using Vue.js
- Bring reactivity to your existing static application
- Set up a project using Vite.js, a build tool for frontend project code management
- Build an interactive state management system for a frontend application with Pinia
- Connect external data from the server to your Vue application
- Control the application flow with static and dynamic routing using Vue Router
- Fully test your application using Vitest and Playwright
Maya is Senior Software Engineer in Microsoft, working extensively with JavaScript and frontend frameworks and based in Israel. She holds a B.Sc in Computer Sciences, B.A in Business Management, and an International MBA from University of Bar-Ilan, Israel. She has worked with JavaScript and latest frontend frameworks such as React, Vue.js, etc to create scalable and performant front-end solutions at companies such as Cooladata and Cloudinary, and currently Microsoft. She founded and is currently the organizer of the VueJS Israel Meetup Community, helping to create a strong playground for Vue.js lovers and like-minded developers. Maya is also a published author, international speaker and an open-source library maintainer of frontend and web projects. As a core maintainer of StorefrontUI framework for e-commerce, she focuses on delivering performant components and best practices to the community while believing a strong Vanilla JavaScript knowledge is necessary for being a good web developer. She can be reached at her blog (https: //mayashavin.com), on Twitter @mayashavin, or via email.
