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Vue.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Vue.js Quick Start Guide Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily using Vue.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344103
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ajdin Imsirovic Ajdin Imsirovic
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Vue 2. Basic Concepts of Vue 2 FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Vue-CLI, Components, Props, and Slots 4. Filters and Mixins 5. Making Your Own Directives and Plugins 6. Transitions and Animations 7. Using Vuex 8. Using Nuxt.js and Vue-Router 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Vue component hierarchy, and global and local components


As we learned in Chapter 2, Basic Concepts of Vue 2, to get a new Vue instance running, we use new Vue:

new Vue(
  el: "#app",
  // the rest of the Vue instance code here
)

Our app component resides inside this Vue instance.

The app component usually has a child component, like we saw in this example from Chapter 2, Basic Concepts of Vue 2: https://codepen.io/AjdinImsirovic/pen/xzpOaJ:

Vue.component('custom-article', {
  template: `
    <article>
      Our own custom article component!
    </article>`
})
new Vue({
    el: '#app'
})

What we did not mention in the previous chapter is this:

  • A child component can be reused as many times as needed
  • A child component can also have its own children

An example of this is available in the following pen: https://codepen.io/AjdinImsirovic/pen/ZjdOdK.

Here is the code which demonstrates these two principles:

// JS
Vue.component('custom-article', {
  template: `
    <article>
      Our own...
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