To simulate gathering data from a shop database or point-of-sale, our app is going to load product data from a CSV. CSV, or Comma Separated Values, is a file format often used for sharing data in a database-style way. Think of how you would lay out a list of products in excel or numbers: that is how a CSV file is formatted.
This next step is going to require downloading and including a couple more JavaScript files. If you chose option 1 in the Server setup section – to have your files stored in a JSON file locally – you can skip this step.
The data we're going to be using is example shop data from Shopify. These CSVs have a wide selection of product types and different data, which will test our Vue skills. Shopify has made their example data available for download from a GitHub repository (https://github.com/shopifypartners/shopify-product-csvs-and...