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Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices Build enterprise-ready, modular Vue.js applications with Vuex and Nuxt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839792
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Vue.js Principles and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Proper Creation of Vue Projects 3. Writing Clean and Lean Code with Vue 4. Vue.js Directives 5. Secured Communication with Vue.js Components 6. Creating Better UI 7. HTTP and WebSocket Communication 8. Vue Router Patterns 9. State Management with Vuex 10. Testing Vue.js Applications 11. Optimization 12. Server-Side Rendering with Nuxt 13. Patterns

Lifecycle hooks


We have access to a variety of lifecycle hooks that fire at particular points during the creation of our Vue instance. These hooks range from prior to creation with beforeCreate, to after the instance is mounted, destroyed, and many more in between.

As the following figure shows, the creation of a new Vue instance fires off functions at varying stages of the instance lifecycle.

We'll be looking at how we can activate these hooks within this section:

Vue.js instance lifecycle hooks

Taking advantage of the lifecycle hooks (https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/instance.html) can be done in a similar way to any other property on our Vue instance. Let's take a look at how we can interact with each one of the hooks, starting from the top; I'll be creating another project based on the standard webpack-simple template:

// App.vue
<template>
</template>

<script>
export default {
 data () {
   return {
    msg: 'Welcome to Your Vue.js App'
   }
 },
 beforeCreate() {
  console...
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