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Vue.js: Understanding its Tools and Ecosystem

You're reading from   Vue.js: Understanding its Tools and Ecosystem Take a crash course in the main concepts and syntax of the Vue.js library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
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ISBN-13 9781800206625
Length 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dave Berning Dave Berning
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Backstop Media LLC Backstop Media LLC
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Getting Started with Vue.js 2. Scaffolding Projects With Vue CLI 3 FREE CHAPTER 3. Navigation with Vue Router 4. State Management with Vuex 5. Debugging With Vue DevTools 6. Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt.js 7. Static Site Generation with VuePress 8. Mobile App Development with NativeScript for Vue.js 9. Greater Control of JavaScript and Type Casting with TypeScript 10. The Future of Vue.js and Adoption Rates

History Mode and Server Configurations

Currently, in your application, the URLs are prefixed with /#/ this is the default mode which is also known as “hash mode”. When in hash mode, Vue.js uses the /#/ to simulate a URL so the page won’t be reloaded when the URL changes. However, you can change this by enabling history mode. In history mode, Vue Router takes advantage of the ‘history.pushState` API to prevent the page from reloading.

To enable history mode, just add the mode attribute with a value of history to the VueRouter object.

router.js

export default new Router({
  mode: 'history', // Down here!
  routes: [
    {
      path: '/',
      name: 'home',
      component: Home,
    },
  ],
});

This removes the hash in the URL and makes the URL path look “normal” as desired. However, since it’s a singe page application, in history mode and without server configurations, navigating to a route will result in...

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