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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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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

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

Creating the global state

Now that we are done with the setup, we can go back to main.js and start working on our global state.

Inside the new Vuex.Store configuration, we will add a reserved property called state. state is a reactive object that works in a similar way to the local state, data(), so we will redefine the structure of our form here, except, since it's not directly tied to it now, we will rename it user.

Back in main.js, go ahead and set up the following state inside the new Vuex.Store object:

state: {
user: {
firstName: '',
lastName: '',
email: '',
love: 'fun',
telephone: '',
website: ''
}
},

You may be wondering why we are naming our global property that holds the user data as user instead of form as we had it before. First, let me clarify that you are free to name your state variables...

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