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Vue CLI 3 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Vue CLI 3 Quick Start Guide Build and maintain Vue.js applications quickly with the standard CLI

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789950342
Length 200 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 CLI 3 2. Webpack in Vue CLI 3 FREE CHAPTER 3. Babel in Vue CLI 3 4. Testing in Vue CLI 3 5. Vue CLI 3 and Routing 6. Using ESLint and Prettier in Vue CLI 3 7. Improving CSS with SCSS 8. Deploying Vue CLI 3 Apps on GitHub Pages 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Babel

As we've seen already in the previous chapters, once you build a default Vue application using the Vue CLI, you can then serve it with npm run serve.

Your app will usually be served at localhost:8080. Looking at the served page with its default contents, you'll notice that there are two plugins listed under the Installed CLI Plugins heading: babel and eslint.

Why would these two plugins come pre-installed with the default application? Obviously, the Vue framework's team is trying hard to follow best practices and be up-to-date with the modern approach to building web applications. Using Babel is one of these best practices.

If you visit the Babel website, you'll see the following definition of what it is:

"Babel is a toolchain that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ code into a backwards compatible version of JS in current...
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