Preface

Welcome to the Vue.js community, which is one of the most friendly frontend communities. Vue.js is a frontend framework that allows you to build performant interactive web applications with ease. Vue.js has a shallow learning curve – getting started is easy! This book guides you on your first steps to creating Vue.js applications with increasing complexity and size.

Apart from showing you the technology and teaching you the best practices with Vue.js, the chapters of this book are set up to teach you about general development practices as well. The book lets you experience different approaches when dealing with new technology, implementing third-party solutions, or orchestrating more complex application structures.

There are many resources that focus on very specific use cases or even single components. The aim of this book is to offer a realistic and broad view of Vue.js developer responsibilities and expectations. Every chapter will result in a functional application. Every application introduces a new concept to familiarize yourself with.

I have designed the chapters to progress in a natural way, where we increase complexity with every chapter. I will enforce concepts iteratively over the course of multiple chapters. I am experienced in using Vue.js in a complex, enterprise-level environment where my experience in adopting useful practices and working with third-party solutions has shaped the focal points of the structure and chapters.

As a mentor and coach, I have tried to show and guide you through regular development processes – not writing perfect code from the start but embracing refactoring steps and improving software while an application grows.

The main goal of this book is to not only allow you to both learn and understand Vue.js and its ecosystem, but also prepare you to land a Vue.js developer job by growing a portfolio that showcases your capabilities as a professional web developer.

Using technologies such as Vue.js, Nuxt, Pinia, and Vite is what enables us to build the wildest applications. This is only possible because of the combined and relentless efforts of core maintainers and the numerous contributors that build and publish open source software. Please consider donating or participating to show your support as well. Any contribution to these frameworks or libraries is welcomed and much needed to keep maintaining and developing software that benefits us all.