Vuex Quick Start Guide

Centralized State Management for your Vue.js applications

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Andrea Koutifaris

Paid access

|Sep 2024

E-Book €20.99Institutions €116.95

Description

Develop consistent web apps with Vuex by easily centralizing the state of your application

Key Features

Uncover the hidden features of Vuex to build applications that are powerful, consistent, and maintainable
Enforce a Flux-like application architecture in your Vue application
Test your Vuex elements and Vue components using Karma/Jasmine testing framework

Book Description

State management preserves the state of controls in a user interface. Vuex is a state management tool for Vue.js that makes the architecture easier to understand, maintain and evolve. This book is the easiest way to get started with Vuex to improve your Vue.js application architecture and overall user experience.
Our book begins by explaining the problem that Vuex solves, and how it helps your applications. You will learn about the Vuex core concepts, including the Vuex store, changing application state, carrying out asynchronous operations and persisting state changes, all with an eye to scalability.
You will learn how to test Vuex elements and Vue components with the Karma and Jasmine testing frameworks. You will see this in the context of a testing first approach, following the fundamentals of Test Driven Development. TDD will help you to identify which components need testing and how to test them. You will build a full Vuex application by creating the application components and services, and persist the state.
Vuex comes with a plugin system that allows programmers to extend Vuex features. You will learn about some of the most powerful plugins, and make use of the built-in logger plugin. You write a custom Google Analytics plugin to send actions to its analytics API, and an Undo/Redo plugin.

What you will learn

Moving from classical MVC to a Flux-like architecture
Implementing predictable centralized state management in your applications using Vuex
Using ECMAScript 6 features for developing a real application
Using webpack in conjunction with Vue single file components
Testing your Vue/Vuex applications using Karma/Jasmine and inject-loader
Simple and effective Test Driven Development
Extending your application with Vuex plugins

Who this book is for

If you are a JavaScript developer, working on Vue.js and want to extend your web development skills to develop and maintain bigger applications using state management, then this book is for you. No knowledge of Vuex is required.