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Building Forms with Vue.js

You're reading from   Building Forms with Vue.js Patterns for building and scaling complex forms with great UX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213335
Length 108 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marina Mosti Hernandez Mosti Marina Mosti Hernandez Mosti
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Preface 1. Setting up the Demo Project FREE CHAPTER 2. A Form in its Simplest Form 3. Creating Reusable Form Components 4. Input Masks with v-mask 5. Input Validation with Vuelidate 6. Moving to a Global State with Vuex 7. Creating Schema-Driven Forms 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Binding the inputs to local state

The purpose of forms in a web application is to capture some user input and be able to do something with it. In our example, we still don't have any way to access the user's input with JavaScript for our Vuetiful plans—so, let's start with that.

Please note that you do not necessarily have to wrap up your form's data inside a secondary object, but, I have found it to be cleaner—especially when you start adding other data properties to your component, which may not necessarily be related to your form.

Create a new data property on the instance of your App.vue file. Inside of it, we're going to declare a form object, which will, in turn, hold a property for each one of our inputs:

<script>
export default {
name: 'app',
data() {
return {
form: {
firstName: &apos...
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