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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

Updating the product details when switching URLs

While navigating through the different product URLs to check variations, you may have noticed that clicking back and forward doesn't update the product data on the page.

This is because Vue-router realizes the same component is being used between the pages, and so, rather than destroying and creating a new instance, it reuses the component. The downside to this is that the data does not get updated; we need to trigger a function to include the new product data. The upside is that the code is more efficient.

To tell Vue to retrieve the new data, we need to create a watch function; instead of watching a variable, we are going to watch the $route variable. When this gets updated, we can load new data.

Create a new variable in the data instance of slug, and set the default to be the route parameter. Update the product computed...

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