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Vue.js 2.x by Example

You're reading from   Vue.js 2.x by Example Example-driven guide to build web apps with Vue.js for beginners

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293464
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mike Street Mike Street
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Vue.js 2. Displaying, Looping, Searching, and Filtering Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Optimizing your App and Using Components to Display Data 4. Getting a List of Files Using the Dropbox API 5. Navigating through the File Tree and Loading Folders from the URL 6. Caching the Current Folder Structure Using Vuex 7. Pre-Caching Other Folders and Files for Faster Navigation 8. Introducing Vue-Router and Loading URL-Based Components 9. Using Vue-Router Dynamic Routes to Load Data 10. Building an E-Commerce Store – Browsing Products 11. Building an E-Commerce Store – Adding a Checkout 12. Using Vue Dev Tools and Testing Your SPA

Caching the folder contents

Now that we have Vuex in our app and are utilizing it for the path, we can begin to look at storing the contents of the currently-displayed folder so that if the user returns to the same place, the API does not need to be queried to retrieve the results. We are going to do this by storing the object returned by the API the Vuex store.

When the folder gets requested, the app will check whether the data exists in the store. If it does, the API call will be omitted and the data loaded from the storage. If it doesn't exist, the API will be queried and the results saved in the Vuex store.

The first step is to separate out the data processing into its own method. This is because the files and folders are going to need to be split regardless of whether the data comes from the store or API.

Create a new method in the dropbox-viewer component titled createFolderStructure...

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