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Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js 3

You're reading from   Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js 3 Learn the fundamentals of building scalable web applications and dynamic user interfaces with Vue.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234991
Length 628 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Hugo Di Francesco Hugo Di Francesco
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Clifford Gurney Clifford Gurney
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and Crash Course
2. Chapter 1: Starting Your First Vue Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Data 4. Chapter 3: Vite and Vue Devtools 5. Part 2: Building Your First Vue App
6. Chapter 4: Nesting Components (Modularity) 7. Chapter 5: The Composition API 8. Chapter 6: Global Component Composition 9. Chapter 7: Routing 10. Chapter 8: Animations and Transitions 11. Part 3: Global State Management
12. Chapter 9: The State of Vue State Management 13. Chapter 10: State Management with Pinia 14. Part 4: Testing and Application Deployment
15. Chapter 11: Unit Testing 16. Chapter 12: End-to-End Testing 17. Chapter 13: Deploying Your Code to the Web 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding routing

Routing is one of the most essential and primary parts of building dynamic web applications. You may be familiar with the word in its everyday context. It is the process of getting a user to their desired location. Users who enter website.com/about into their URL bar will be redirected to the About page.

In web development, routing is the matching mechanism by which we decide how to connect HTTP requests to the code that handles them. We use routing whenever there is a need for URL navigation in our application. Most modern web applications contain a lot of different URLs, even single-page ones.

Thus, routing creates a navigation system and helps users quickly move around our application and the web. With Single-Page Applications (SPAs), routing allows you to smoothly navigate within an application without the need for page refreshing.

In short, routing is a way for an application to interpret what resource users want based on the URL provided. It is...

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