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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices Build enterprise-ready, modular Vue.js applications with Vuex and Nuxt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839792
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Vue.js Principles and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Proper Creation of Vue Projects 3. Writing Clean and Lean Code with Vue 4. Vue.js Directives 5. Secured Communication with Vue.js Components 6. Creating Better UI 7. HTTP and WebSocket Communication 8. Vue Router Patterns 9. State Management with Vuex 10. Testing Vue.js Applications 11. Optimization 12. Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt 13. Patterns

Event Bus

When we're looking to create an application wide events system (that is, without strictly parent to child component), we can create what's known as an Event Bus. This allows us to "pipe" all of our events through a singular Vue instance, essentially allowing for communication past just parent and child components. As well as this, it's useful for those not looking to use third-party libraries such as Vuex, or smaller projects that are not handling many actions. Let's make a new playground project to demonstrate it:

# Create a new Vue project
$ vue init webpack-simple vue-event-bus

# Navigate to directory
$ cd vue-event-bus

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run application
$ npm run dev

Start off by creating an EventsBus.js inside the src folder. From here we can export a new Vue instance that we can use to emit events like before with $emit...

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