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Building Vue.js Applications with GraphQL

You're reading from   Building Vue.js Applications with GraphQL Develop a complete full-stack chat app from scratch using Vue.js, Quasar Framework, and AWS Amplify

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565074
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Heitor Ramon Ribeiro Heitor Ramon Ribeiro
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Data Binding, Events, and Computed Properties 2. Components, Mixins, and Functional Components FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Our Chat App - AWS Amplify Environment and GraphQL 4. Creating Custom Application Components and Layouts 5. Creating the User Vuex Module, Pages, and Routes 6. Creating Chat and Message Vuex, Pages, and Routes 7. Transforming Your App into a PWA and Deploying to the Web 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating computed properties and understanding how they work

Imagine that every time you have to fetch manipulated data, you need to execute a function. Imagine that you need to get specific data that needs to go through some process and you need to execute it through a function every time. This type of work would not be easy to maintain. Computed properties exist to solve these problems. Using computed properties makes it easier to obtain data that needs preprocessing or even caching without executing any other external memorizing function.

Getting ready

The prerequisite for this recipe is Node.js 12+.

The Node.js global objects that are required for this recipe are as follows:

  • @vue/cli
  • @vue/cli-service-global

You can continue with our to-do list project or create a new Vue project with the Vue CLI, as we learned in the Creating your first project with the Vue CLI recipe.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a computed property and understand how it works:

  1. In the App.vue...
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