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Building Real-World Web Applications with Vue.js 3

You're reading from   Building Real-World Web Applications with Vue.js 3 Build a portfolio of Vue.js and TypeScript web applications to advance your career in web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630394
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Vue.js Development
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Vue.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating a Todo List App 4. Chapter 3: Building a Local Weather App 5. Chapter 4: Creating the Marvel Explorer App 6. Part 2: Intermediate Projects
7. Chapter 5: Building a Recipe App with Vuetify 8. Chapter 6: Creating a Fitness Tracker with Data Visualization 9. Chapter 7: Building a Multiplatform Expense Tracker Using Quasar 10. Part 3: Advanced Applications
11. Chapter 8: Building an Interactive Quiz App 12. Chapter 9: Experimental Object Recognition with TensorFlow 13. Part 4: Wrapping Up
14. Chapter 10: Creating a Portfolio with Nuxt.js and Storyblok 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reactivity explained

If you have opened the app and clicked an item, you can toggle the checkbox, but on refreshing the page, nothing happens. Also, if you’ve looked closely at the CSS of the <ListItem /> component, you may have noticed that strikethrough styling should be applied on a checked item. This is only the case on the first item.

The toggling of the checkbox is, in fact, native browser behavior and doesn’t signify anything in the context of the state of the Todo list!

We need to wire the changes in the UI to the state of the application. In order to get started, we need to import some utilities from the Vue.js package. Add these two lines to the top of the <script> block:

import { ref } from 'vue'import type { Ref } from 'vue'

The ref function is used to add reactivity and track updates to certain parts of the code. The value of ref is automatically inferred by TypeScript, but for complex types, we can specify the...

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