This book introduces you to Vue CLI 3 and answers questions such as how to use it, why to use it, the best practices, and what you'll get out of it.
In this chapter, we'll look at how to set up Vue CLI 3 on our system. We'll begin by checking to see whether Vue CLI 3 is already available, and we'll see the exact steps to take if we either need a fresh installation or an update from a previous version.
We'll then look at how to install the Node Version Manager (NVM), and why that is a better alternative than simply installing Node. We'll see how easy it is to get started with Vue CLI 3 in VS Code, and how to integrate all these tools by using our command line.
We'll also discuss why Vue CLI 3 is great to use and work with, and we'll see this in practice, by running a default Vue CLI 3 app, both from the command line and by using the built-in Vue CLI 3 UI functionality.
The topics we will cover in this chapter include the following:
- Setting up Vue CLI 3 on your system
- Installing Vue CLI 3
- Installing VS Code
- Using Vue CLI with no configuration
- The benefits of using Vue CLI 3
- Avoiding JavaScript fatigue with the default toolchain
We'll begin this chapter by setting up Vue CLI 3.
